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Urban Design

Explore key issues and ideas in urban design and planning, including bike infrastructure, Vision Zero, walkability, density, and more.

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Kibbo Imagines the Modular City of the Future

Treehugger Voices

Reminder: The Rich Have Always Fled Cities in Epidemics

Treehugger Voices

Are the Suburbs Booming?

Treehugger Voices
The 15-Minute City and the Return of the Satellite Office
Home & Design
The 15-Minute City Is Having a Moment
Home & Design
Will Expanded Patios Save the Restaurant Business?
Current Events
Coronavirus and the Air Conditioned Nightmare
Home & Design
Design Lessons from the Washington Monument
Home & Design
Linear City Proposed as 'Solution To Our Ecological Problems'
Home & Design
Saudi Arabia Puts the Future of Cities on THE LINE
Home & Design
Treehouse Village Goes Beyond Cohousing
Treehugger Voices
It's Time to Rethink Our Main Streets
Treehugger Voices
Why We Need Public Parks More Than Ever This Winter
Treehugger Voices
How To Sell Vision Zero Like a Car
Treehugger Voices
What Might Our Cities Look Like Without Cars?
Treehugger Voices
Children Should Be Playing in the Streets
Home & Design
How To Design A Green Community
Treehugger Voices
Study Finds That People Overestimate Walking Distances
Treehugger Voices
To Make a Walkable City, Start With Babies
Urban Design
20 Miles of Seattle Streets Will Soon Close Permanently to Most Cars
Urban Design
Millennials Want Houses, but They Don't Want What Boomers Are Selling
Urban Design
'Downsize' Shows You How to Think Big When Living Small
Urban Design
Take Back the Streets and Give Them to Restaurants
Urban Design
Why We Need 'Distributed Density'
Urban Design
The Coronavirus and the Future of Main Street
Urban Design
Open Streets and Parks Are a Matter of Equity and Fairness
Urban Design
Urban Design After the Coronavirus
Urban Design
It's Time to Take Back the Streets for People Who Walk, Run, or Bike
Urban Design
What Does a Gender-Neutral City Look Like?
Urban Design
Urban Density Is Not the Enemy, It Is Your Friend
Urban Design
City, Suburb or Country? Where's the Best Place to Ride Out This Crisis?
Travel
14 of the Oldest Continuously Inhabited Cities
Urban Design
Even the Smallest Urban Green Spaces Can Have a Big Impact on Mental Health
Urban Design
If Cities Are Going to Curb Their Carbon Emissions, They Have to Consider Consumption
Urban Design
New Award for Landscape Architecture Honors Cornelia Oberlander
Urban Design
IKEA Is Building a Big New Store in Vienna With No Parking
Urban Design
The Case for Dumb Cities
Urban Design
Three Tweets That Changed My Decade
Business & Policy
Under Construction for 137 Years, This Famous Spanish Basilica Just Got Its Building Permit
Urban Design
The Year in Urban Design
Urban Design
Boosting Buffalo as a Climate Change Haven
Urban Design
US Government Goes After Green Modern Design, Will Make Architecture Classical Again
Urban Design
The Future of Transportation Is the Bus, the Bike and the Elevator
Urban Design
Jargon Watch: "Hipsturbia"
Urban Design
Toronto: A Lesson in How Not to Do Vision Zero
Urban Design
Wood Architecture Meets Nature in New Community in Copenhagen
Urban Design
How Ghent Got Rid of Cars and Transformed the City in a Decade
Urban Design
Why Building Density Matters as Much as Building Efficiency
Family
Progressive Baby Boomers Are Fighting Housing and Transportation Progress
Urban Design
The Leaning Tower of Pisa Is Leaning a Bit Less These Days
Urban Design
If We Are Going to Have Good Indoor Air Quality, We Have to Start Outdoors
Urban Design
Why Are House Prices Rising Faster in Car-Dependent Suburbs?
Urban Design
Saudi Prince Building Solar Powered City With Robots, Glowing Sand and an Artificial Moon
Urban Design
Blueprint for Autonomous Urbanism Shows How Cities Can Adapt and Change to Accommodate Everyone
Urban Design
Why Cohousing Could Be the Answer for Aging Baby Boomers
Urban Design
Manhattan's Newest Green Space Straddles an Active Train Yard
Urban Design
Happy Simcoe Day: How Good Planning Changed a Country
Urban Design
What's the World's Safest City?
Urban Design
10 International Cities With Stunning Skylines
Urban Design
More Praise for Dumb Cities
Travel
9 Unforgettable Urban Waterfalls
Urban Design
Where Are All the Fantasy Pedestrians?
Urban Design
Pop-Up Playground for Adults Built in Montreal Square
Urban Design
San Jose Approves Tiny House Villages for the Homeless
Urban Design
Hamilton, Ontario, Gets "Urban Pumper" Right-Sized for Urban Streets
Urban Design
Sidewalk Labs: A Once-In-A-Lifetime Opportunity or a Brazen Corporate Highjack?
Urban Design
8 Cities Where Cleanliness Rules
Urban Design
An Urbanist's Question: Where Is the Best Place to Have a Parade?
Urban Design
UK Study Says Public Washrooms Are "As Essential as Streetlights"
Urban Design
Health Benefits of Walkable Cities Won't Be Realised Without Reducing Automobile Use
Active
Why Pedestrian Deaths Are a Public Health Crisis
Urban Design
How the Extinction Rebellion Built the Best Garden Bridge
Urban Design
Why Can't We Have Woonerven in North America?
Transportation
Seattle Turns the Page on Iconic Viaduct
Urban Design
Desire Paths: The Unsanctioned Shortcuts Crisscrossing Public Spaces
Urban Design
Artists Bring Life to Toronto's Feel Good Lane
Urban Design
We Need Safe Places to Walk and Ride, Not Just Safety Theater
Urban Design
How We Get Around Determines What We Build, and Also Determines Much of Our Carbon Footprint
Urban Design
Floating Cities: A Good Plan for the Future or Magical Thinking?
Conservation
Is Concrete "The Most Destructive Material on Earth"?
Urban Design
'Green Inequity' Plagues U.S. Cities, Study Finds
Home & Design
Tallest Modular Hotel Is Built in New York City
Urban Design
Two Very Different Visions of How Cars Fit in the City of the Future
Travel
18 Eye-Popping Pedestrian Bridges
Active
We Need a Better Word Than 'Walkable'
Public Transportation
Push Toward Transit-Oriented Housing Proves Divisive in California
Urban Design
Can Vacant Mall Stores Alleviate Homelessness?
Urban Design
We're Building the Wrong Kind of Playgrounds
Home & Design
Sidewalk Labs Releases Its Vision for Toronto's Waterfront
Home & Design
Obama Presidential Center Faces Legal Challenge From Park Preservationists
Transportation
Why Oslo Is Saying No to Cars in Its City Center
Urban Design
Speeding Police Officer Gets Eight Months for Killing Pedestrian
Urban Design
On the 1st Day of Safety Myths, My DOT Gave to Me....
Urban Design
How Turning Gray Schoolyards Green Could Help Cities Cool Off
Urban Design
A Plug-In City Rises in London at the Trampery on the Gantry
Active
World's Largest Bicycle Parking Garage Unveiled in the Netherlands
Urban Design
How Online Shopping Is Making Congestion and Pollution Worse
Business & Policy
Japan's Vacant Housing Crisis Sparks Giveaway
Urban Design
Venice to Become First Algae-Powered City

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