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How COVID Has Revealed The Need For A Rethink In Urban Planning
The COVID-19 pandemic has heightened awareness of the significant flaws in our urban infrastructure, and highlighted our lack…
Is Your City Making You Fat? How Urban Planning Can Address The Obesity Epidemic
New disease outbreaks, like the novel coronavirus that recently emerged in China’s Hubei province, generate headlines and attention.…
How To Use The Power Of Urban Planning To Tackle Inequality
Income inequality creates both spatial and social divides and shows itself within cities in many ways. Gated communities…
Poor Urban Planning, Poor Urban Life. Simple.
Modern urban planning first came about to improve industrial cities that had become unsafe, unhealthy and essentially unliveable.…
What The Strip Can Teach Us About Urban Planning
Long before America’s current urban revival, the Strip was ditching its streetside car parks for promenades and conceiving…
Kids Will Outsmart Us With Design Thinking For Urban Planning
In some schools, “design thinking” has become a buzzword emphasizing critical thinking and problem solving. At a recent…
Gil Penalosa : Citizens Can’t Be Spectators In Urban Planning
Gil Penalosa wants you to act now. So it’s a good thing that when he’s expounding on how…
The Evolution Of Urban Planning In 10 Diagrams
Le Corbusier’s plan may not have had such power if he hadn’t put it on paper. The French…
5 Trends In Urban Infrastructure Planning Design
To survive, you need roads and electricity. Here we are not talking about survival, but about the policy…
How Has Our Urban World Made Pandemics More Likely?
Cities are hubs for business and innovation, but can also create favourable conditions for increased disease transmission. Here,…
3 Proven Urban Designing Principles That Enhance Road Safety
Today, 55% of the population worldwide lives in cities. According to The World Bank, the number will double by…
Connecting Urban Environments With IoT And Digital Twins
As urbanization continues to take hold and cities face challenges to become more sustainable and livable, urban planning…
How Urban Farming Tech Is Shaping The Future Of Food
As agriculture goes urban, it brings along technologies which may alter the future of food. Urban farming is…
If More Of Us Work From Home After Coronavirus We’ll Need To Rethink City Planning
We have seen an unprecedented rise in the number of people working from home as directed by governments…
Mobility-As-A-Service: The Value Proposition For The Public And Our Urban Systems
Private car ownership is going down soon — it is time for Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS) to shine. In a…
How Can We Design Sustainable Urban Lighting For Our Cities
We might be taking it for granted for now, but the introduction of lighting in our streets is…
Cities Alive: Designing For Urban Childhoods
Much of the things we do right now will heavily impact future generations. This goes beyond the political…
Challenges To Implementing Urban Master Plans – What Are We Missing?
We often hear statements saying that many Sub-Saharan African cities are 60-80% “unplanned.” However, this seems quite contradictory…
Getting Into The Urban Property Development Market: How Developers Can Appeal To Metro Masses And Break The Profit Barrier
The urban property regeneration continues, with both businesses and renters flocking to the cities in search of the…
Smart Cities Aim To Make Urban Life More Efficient – But For Citizens’ Sake They Need To Slow Down
All over the world, governments, institutions and businesses are combining technologies for gathering data, enhancing communications and sharing…
What Can Bees Teach Us About Building Better Urban Ecosystems?
Vacant land and urban agriculture are rejuvenating wild bee populations. Bees love cities. What can cities do to…
Our Changing Views Of The City: A New Urban Celebration
The celebration of the city today is widespread. Globally, many cities have fulfilled Louis Wirth’s prophesy from 1930s Chicago.…
Working With Nature Can Help Us Build Greener Cities Instead Of Urban Slums
As Australian cities grow and transform, we need to ensure we are not building the slums of the…
Embracing The Paradox Of Planning For Informality
Planners and urban designers often face an uncomfortable paradox: People tend to prefer neighborhoods that developed organically with…
The 100 Million City : Is 21st Century Urbanisation Out Of Control?
Projections suggest cities will swell at an astonishing pace – but whether that means our salvation or an…
Why Australian Cities Are Crying Out For Better Planning
Although 90% of our population lives in cities, Australia lacks a national urban policy and our government provides insufficient funding…
This Is Why Health Has To Be At The Heart Of The New Urban Agenda
Urban experts gathered at the ninth World Urban Forum in Kuala Lumpur over the past week to discuss progress on…
Elephant In The Planning Scheme: How Cities Still Work Around The Dominance Of Parking Space
Car parking is expected but often unnoticed, taking up surprisingly large proportions of city space. A parking bay occupies…
Planning Our Connection To The Natural Landscape
Have we become too detached from our landscapes and our sense of place within the natural world? Is…
Lawn Care & Gardening In The City: How to Utilise Your Urban Green Space
Gardening has been a longstanding passion of the British people, regardless of where they live in the country.…
Planning Cities For Migration
Migration is a natural human phenomenon, but not one that organisations in the built environment are that focused…
Flat White Urbanism: There Must Be Better Ways To Foster A Vibrant Street Life
Iconic architectural pieces may attract large numbers of tourists but are not the only things that live in…
Smarter Cities May Very Well Be Slower Cities For True Urban Soul
Peter Jackson employed an intricate approach to the stage design of Lord of the Rings. The people who…
Nail Houses, A Pain In China’s Rapid Urbanisation Run
A single house balancing precariously in the middle of a construction site may seem like a doomed and…
Airport Privatisations Have Put Profit Before Public Safety And Good Planning
The plane crash at Essendon Airport last week shows the folly of allowing runways to co-exist with commercial…
Why Culture Should Drive City Planning
In my view, while infrastructure and services are necessary for environmental health, it is culture that provides identity,…
What Can Urban Planners Do To Promote Mental Health?
This group advocates designing cities with emotional well-being in mind. The Tokyo-based psychiatrist Layla McCay founded the Center…
How “Urbanpreneur” Play Out In Cities Around The World?
How the internet ushered in a new era for entrepreneurs in the urban ecosystem. For years we’ve heard…
Create To Regenerate : Cities Tap Into Talent For Urban Renewal
The creative industries – ranging from game development to architecture, media, design and the arts – are a…
Top 10 Urban Projects Made For People, By Its People
Take a close look at 10 of the Best Urban Projects in the World. I’ve always been fond of…
Why A Privileged Sub-Urban Core For Sydney Will Destroy Its Soul
The New South Wales government is imposing an anti-urban legislative and development agenda on Sydney. This agenda conceptualises…
Urban Density: An Oversimplified Concept That Endanger Our Future
In debates about urban density, we often find comments about buildings being too tall or not tall enough,…
Not All Ills Of Urban Consolidation Is As Ugly As Media Reports
Neighbourhoods as “battlefields”, “sardine city”, traditional suburbs as “threatened species” and urban hubs as the domain of “latte-sipping…
Urban Gardens, A Future For Our Society’s At-Risk People
In 2008, the Pew Center on the States reported that Vermont, Michigan, Oregon, Connecticut, and Delaware spent more money on…
Top 10 National Parks In The USA For Urban Escapes
Most people, even dedicated urbanites, need a break now and then from concrete jungle, round-the-clock noise, and exhaust…
A First Look Into Our Future With Urban Forestry
We know intuitively that we need trees in our cities. They enhance the public realm, provide shade, cool…
Hopefully, New Urban Highways Learn From Mistakes Of The Past
As plans advance for the Interstate 49 Connector, Lafayette, Louisiana, might soon find out. Lafayette, Louisiana, shouldn’t have…
How Sandtown, Baltimore Reinvents Itself With Community Planning
Across the United States thousands of once thriving working class neighborhoods are boarded up, but few are in…
Discover How The Future Of Urban Farms Produces More Than Food
Most urban centers have a bad rap for pollution and energy consumption, but the cities of the future…
The Challenges Of Managing Global Urbanization
As cities — and slums — grow around the world, governments are going to need to step up…