Tag: Urban Planning

Urbanists are rethinking what's important about our cities in view of the pandemic.

We really have to change the way we use our cities.

Throughout history, urban planning has been designed for and by able-bodied men. What does that mean for everyone else?

If you care about embodied carbon, money or time, you don't dig. But then this is Toronto.

Transportation has a much bigger impact on urban design than we think.

A new report describes this trend, happening in suburbs and small towns near successful big cities.

They say it's the new megatrend: customers without cars.

A look back at the tweets that changed the way I think about sustainable design.

Architects at a Mass Timber round table note that we have to build great urban spaces at reasonable densities.

New studies find that sales are big and getting bigger. It's time to give them a safe place to ride.

A new study shows that there is some seriously low-hanging fruit here that would deliver more bang for the buck.

NACTO lays out a vision for how autonomous vehicles, and technology more broadly, can work in service of safe, sustainable, equitable, vibrant cities.

The red glowing street lights allow light-shy bats to cross the road.

Much depends on how you define "safe"

Todd Litman calls the war on cars a bad joke. He gives us a lot of ammunition in the fight to end it.

Daniel Herridges of Strong Towns says, "If your goal is to promote public safety, design for the humans you have, not the ones you wish you had."

In London: get rid of cars. In New York: get rid of people.

The city is getting bike lanes and light rail transit, and their new apparatuses are chosen to better fit the streetscape.