Singapore New green corridor to connect Singapore's three national gardens, -businesstimes.com.sg [SINGAPORE] A new green corridor will connect Singapore's three national gardens when it is completed in the coming years, if plans to plug a gap in …
Molson Montreal Gets a 'Remarkable' Chance to Build a New NeighborhoodCityLab - Tracey LindemanA historic brewery on the St. Lawrence River will become a new mixed-use district, with a large share of subsidized and below-market-rate housing. For 236 years, the name Molson has watched over Montreal’s
Design The “barefoot architects” who are transforming China’s left-behind rural villagesFast Company - Kelsey Campbell-DollaghanAt a time when nearly two thirds of China’s 900 million rural residents are moving to cities, some architects are focusing on the towns they leave behind. China is urbanizing at breakneck speed. Hundreds
Cities Progressive Boomers Are Making It Impossible For Cities To Fix The Housing CrisisHuffPost - Michael HobbesResidents of wealthy neighborhoods are taking extreme measures to block much-needed housing and transportation projects. SEATTLE — In May 2018, a public meeting in a wealthy enclave of one of America’s
Opinion A New Approach on Housing AffordabilityThe New York Times - By THE EDITORIAL BOARDA growing number of Americans are struggling to cope with the high and rising cost of rental housing in the United States. On any given night last year, more than half a million Americans were homeless.
Chicago Architecture Biennial Contributors to Examine the City's Pressing Challengesampproject.org - Rebecca Holland When the Chicago Architecture Biennial 2019 kicks off in September, several local artists will be on display as contributors. This year’s theme, …
Electric Vehicles New study suggests electric bicycles are much better than electric cars for citiesampproject.org - Micah Toll Two wheels are better than four. Sure, I’ve been saying it for years, but now a new study is actually backing me up. It turns out that even though …
Conservative View Beware the ‘Voodoo’ Urbanism of Elitestheamericanconservative.com - Michael Mehaffy Over the last half-decade or so, a distressingly similar story has been heard from many cities around the world. Newly popular city cores are drawing …
Urban Design How Cities Design ThemselvesCityLab - Nolan GrayUrban planner Alain Bertaud’s new book, Order Without Design, argues that cities are really shaped by market forces, not visionaries. Since first crisscrossing the urbanizing outskirts of Sana'a—one of
Cities The Fastest-Growing U.S. Cities Aren’t What You ThinkCityLab - Richard FloridaLooking at the population and job growth of large cities proper, rather than their metro areas, uncovers some surprises. This is the first post in a four-part series on the economic performance of America’s
Innovation Do you live in a ‘soft city’? Here’s why you probably want toFast Company - Eillie AnzilottiThe polar opposite of the harsh, urban grind, the “soft city” is one that supports relationships between people and the places around them by breaking down traditional silos. Imagine yourself sitting your
Denver, CO Why building walkable cities is the key to economic successCurbed - Patrick SissonWhat if I told you there was a way to develop U.S. cities that was better for social equity, created more jobs and economic activity, resulted in better transit access, and improved the environment, all
Zoning Oregon just effectively banned single-family zoningCurbed - Jeff AndrewsOregon just staked its claim as the state that’s most aggressively trying to address affordable housing. The Beaver State passed what’s effectively a state-wide ban on single-family zoning on Sunday, last
Design You’ve heard of the circular economy. Now meet the circular cityFast Company - Kelsey Campbell-DollaghanFive examples from cities like Berlin, Germany, and Malmö, Sweden, show how circular urban planning could make like healthier and safer for all of us. More than half of the world’s population currently
Cities 'The next era of human progress': what lies behind the global new cities epidemic?The Guardian - Oliver WainwrightThe urge to build cities from scratch is not new – but this time they are being conceived by private multinational corporations as gilt-edged tax-exempt gated communities At 8.30 every morning, an announcement
What Micro-Mapping a City's Density RevealsCityLabExploring density by the square kilometer reveals as much variation within cities as between them—and shows that raw statistics can be deceptive. Density is one of the most important urban characteristics.
America has fallen out of love with the suburbsFast Company - Eillie AnzilottiDriving through sprawl has lost its appeal. Instead, people want to be in dense, diverse, walkable communities. The Boston metro area may be the first region in America to claim that it’s put an end to
Mapping defensive urban design in Torontospacing.ca - Cara Chellew What if you found out your neighbourhood public park may not be as welcoming as you thought? Over a few weekends in June, teams of volunteers set out …
A new wave of smart cities is here, and they look nothing like what you’d expectFast Company - Suzanne LaBarreYou may already live in a smart city, and you don’t even know it. An abandoned mine shaft beneath the town of Mansfield, England, is an unlikely place to shape the future of cities. But here, researchers
How To Solve The Affordable Housing Shortage? Winner Of Design Competition Offers A SolutionForbes - Brenda RichardsonWhat if you lived in a house that was designed to change over time as needed? As a young couple, you might live on the lower level and rent out the two bedrooms upstairs. When you are ready to start a
A patchwork of City Deals or a national settlement strategy: what’s best for our growing cities?theconversation.com - Paul Burton and Luke Nicholls Australia has no enduring tradition of having a national urban policy, unlike the UK, from where we sometimes import policies. The Commonwealth …
City planning czar: Despite mayor's policies, anti-development sentiment at ‘all-time high'crainsnewyork.com - Daniel Geiger The head of the city's planning agency acknowledged that the mandatory inclusionary housing program—a signature accomplishment of Mayor Bill de …
Urbanism Democratizing New Urbanismasla.org - Ian Dillon New Urbanism has been around for nearly 30 years. The movement promotes the neighborhood as a livable unit, prioritizes walkability in communities, …
Jane Jacobs Westlawn Gardens comes to lifeonmilwaukee.com The 75-acre site where Wisconsin's largest public housing development once stood is roaring back to life. About 1,000 mixed-income housing units are …
Blight is eating American cities. Here’s how Mobile, Alabama, stopped itFast Company - Hana SchankThe story of blight in Mobile, Alabama, is the story of the rich and poor in America, of unregulated real estate, and of centuries of inequality. But in Mobile, a small team figured out how to change narrative.
Cities Could floating cities help people adapt to rising sea levels?The Conversation UK - Nathalie Mezza-Garcia By end of the century, rising seas will flood more than 500 coastal cities, affecting 1.5 billion people worldwide. Some estimates predict surging …
Cities Intelligent - rather than smart - cities can address the roots of urban challengestheconversation.com - Sylvie Albert The term “smart city” has gained in popularity, but the label still conjures the use the technologies to solve operational problems. Rather, cities …
Municipal Digital Twins Can Transform City PlanningForbes - Navigant ResearchLandscape of St Melaine street and church on background at Rennes city. Ille et vilaine, brittany. France. Europe. Urban planning has always faced challenges. Its planning takes place behind closed doors
Urban Planning World Bank grants $49.6 million loan for Indonesia’s urban planning programthejakartapost.com - The Jakarta Post Indonesia has just received a US$49.6 million loan from the World Bank to finance the government’s plan to integrate city planning across the …
Artificial intelligence has designs on the cities of the futureReuters - Thomson ReutersExperts believe artificial intelligence will help architects and planners design the towns and cities the world needs to cope with climate change and population growth. Polly Rider reports. Experts believe
Matthew Clapper 1 million people pay nothing for cellphone service, so how does FreedomPop make money?Los Angeles Times - Paresh Dave
Matthew Clapper Winners of "The Rust Belt" Contest Offer Ideas for a 107-Acre Former Factory Sitearchdaily.com - by Finn MacLeod
