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

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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?
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
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
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
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
Urban Design
How the Extinction Rebellion Built the Best Garden Bridge
Urban Design
Why Can't We Have Woonerven in North America?
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?
Urban Design
'Green Inequity' Plagues U.S. Cities, Study Finds
Urban Design
Two Very Different Visions of How Cars Fit in the City of the Future
Urban Design
Can Vacant Mall Stores Alleviate Homelessness?
Urban Design
We're Building the Wrong Kind of Playgrounds
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
Urban Design
How Online Shopping Is Making Congestion and Pollution Worse
Urban Design
Venice to Become First Algae-Powered City
Urban Design
Boomer Alert: How Cities Must Adapt to an Aging Population, and Vice Versa
Urban Design
You Can Now Pee en Plein Air at One of San Francisco's Most Popular Parks
Urban Design
D.C. Architect Eyes Old Metro Cars as Housing for the Homeless
Urban Design
Why the Transportation Energy Intensity of Buildings Matters
Urban Design
City's First Street Library Is Made With Wood & Parametric Design
Urban Design
What Makes a City a Good Place to Get Old?
Urban Design
Teledisko: Defunct Payphone Booths Repurposed as Mini-Discos
Urban Design
A Picture Is Worth: Streamlining at the 1939 New York World's Fair
Urban Design
Oil Silo Converted Into Glowing Interactive Civic Space in Finland (Video)
Urban Design
Cargotecture to Shelter Homeless, Solve Housing Crisis in British Resort Town
Urban Design
New Study Finds More Kids Get Killed on Hallowe'en, Calls for Better Roads and Traffic Calming
Urban Design
Will Allowing Vacant Lots to Grow Wild Ease the Pain of Allergy Sufferers in Detroit?
Urban Design
Floating Ship Crane Converted Into Urban Garden in Antwerp
Urban Design
A Chain of Floating Parks Is Coming to Copenhagen's Revitalized Harbor
Urban Design
Study Shows That People Who Walk and Bike to Main Streets Spend 40 Percent More Than People Who Drive
Urban Design
Undulating Root Bench Is Designed With Computer Algorithms
Urban Design
Laneways and the "Missing Middle" Could Help Solve Our Housing Crisis
Urban Design
What Makes a Public Space Truly Great?
Urban Design
A Tale of Two Stadia: 19,000 Parking Spaces vs a City Full of People
Urban Design
How Urban Design Warms Up Cold-Weather Cities
Urban Design
What Is Vision Zero? It’s About a Complete Change of Mindset
Urban Design
Sidewalks Are Critical Infrastructure, Not a Frill
Urban Design
How Sprawl Was Caused by the Nuclear Arms Race, and Why This Matters More Than Ever Today
Urban Design
The Shopping Mall Isn't Dead Yet
Urban Design
Urban Swimming Is Becoming a Thing Again
Urban Design
Solar-Activated Canopy Creates Interactive Environment That Responds to Light (Video)
Urban Design
Experimental Mini-Greenhouse Plays Host to Urban Plants & Bees
Urban Design
Tesla's Parking Lot Demonstrates the Fundamental Problem of the Car: There Are Too Many of Them
Urban Design
Hong Kong's Housing Crisis Seen Through 40 sq.ft. "Cubicle" Apartments (Photos)
Urban Design
Ballroom Luminoso: Ugly Freeway Underpass Beautified With Recycled Bike Chandeliers
Urban Design
Pop-Up Transformer Converts Vacant Storefronts Into "Community Incubators" (Video)
Urban Design
Drivers Should Pay Attention to This Art of Distraction Campaign
Urban Design
It's Open Season on Open Space
Urban Design
Reconfigurable Canopy Uses Drones to Move Its Modules Around (Video)
Urban Design
Proposed Floating NYC Beach Would Sit on Reclaimed Barge
Urban Design
Does Your City Pass the Popsicle Test?

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