Tag: Urban Planning
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It's June, and Parklets are bustin' out all over
This is the first I have seen in Toronto
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It's time to put an end to traffic terrorism
"Accident, not terror." What's the difference?
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Citizen Jane: Does the new film get it right?
A great introduction to a writer who changed the planning world
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Big chains are sucking the life and the variety out of our cities
Toronto is now looking at limiting chain stores to preserve neighborhood character. They are not the first to try this.
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Will self-driving cars change the way we live as much as the car did?
"Architectural designer in cyberspace" Chenoe Hart thinks they might change everything.
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The Cubic City will house eighty million people in just a fraction of Manhattan
A two-mile wide windowless cube where the biggest crime is "Inurbanity"
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Celebration, Florida may be destroyed in order to save it
The fire department demands trees and on-street parking be removed so that they can have 20' clear speedways
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It's Sneckdown time!
The recent snowfall on the east coast provided a great opportunity for a new Streetfilms epic.
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Cities need more "Gentle Density"
Call me a Gentle Density Creep if you like, but we need more housing and it doesn't have to be in towers.
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Forget about "balance" with cars; we have to prioritize walking, biking and transit
Planner Brent Toderian gets it right.
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It's time for another look at plug-in housing
Can the vertical trailer park cut the price of housing?
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Walkable communities are making a comeback
So says this infographic....
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Buffalo to be first major American city to eliminate parking requirements
It's new green zoning code will definitely boost Buffalo.
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"Hyper-democratic" apartment design fits right in to Copenhagen waterfront
The new can co-exist very nicely with the old.
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Just a normal day, dropping the kid off at school
But what happens when everybody drives, and everybody wants to do it at the same time
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How sprawl was caused by the nuclear arms race, and why this matters more than ever today
A new arms race will kill urban revitalization dead in its tracks.
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Tel Aviv's rooftop farm grows fresh food for thousands
Located above the Dizengoff shopping center, this urban farm uses hydroponics to grow vegetables rapidly and organically.
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If you think Uber is an attack on cities and transit, you ain't seen nothin' yet
Two articles about Uber and transit lose sight of the bigger, long term picture
