Housing Retaining Skilled Workers in Urban Areas planetizen.com For much of modern history, workers have flooded to cities in search of new opportunities. Places like New York City and Los Angeles have become hubs …
United NationsGreen Living Guterres urges cities to embrace ‘generational opportunity’ for climate action, sustainable development United Nations - news.un.org The United Nations Secretary-General, on Friday, called for a “revolution” in urban planning and urban transport to beat back impacts of climate …
Urbanism Stunning Black and White Photos of Chicago in 1988 vintag.es - Unknown “A look at a man plunged into a rugged city in the diversity of his urbanism” is how the sociologist and historian Henri Peretz describes Chicago. …
Cities With West End Square, Dallas Gets a (Very) Smart Park nbcdfw.com - Mark Lamster, The Dallas Morning News Parks and technology are concepts we generally don't associate with one another. Parks are the realm of nature, and there technology does not belong. …
Daily DotUnited States A Cyclist Was Killed In A Collision Hours After He Tweeted About Bike Safety | The Daily Dot Daily Dot - Samira Sadeque A cyclist was killed in a bike accident involving five vehicles just hours after he tweeted about the lack of bike safety in Washington, D.C. Jim …
United Nations Managing Urban Risks and Building Resilience | UNDP undp.org - Asako Okai Statement delivered by Asako Okai at the Development Dialogues Session on Urban Resilience- Managing Urban Risks and Building Resilience: An Old …
Santa Clara County San Jose considers keeping downtown strip closed to cars post-pandemic hoodline.com Like other cities during the pandemic, San Jose closed a popular downtown dining strip to cars last summer so that restaurants could host outdoor …
Human Geography Population Gains and Losses Create Two Americas, and the Difference Is Mostly along Rural-Urban Lines dailyyonder.com - Robert Cushing The overwhelming population growth story of the past 50 years has been the increasing concentration of people in central cities and their suburbs. At …
Cities “Good Design” Is Making Bad Cities verified_publisherslate.com - Henry Grabar The building was two stories, brick without detail, three small windows over a metal roll-up garage gate—an eyesore if there ever was one, crammed …
Urban Planning The General Urban Plan and Zonal Plans of Chisinau were digitized, with support of UNDP | UNDP in Moldova undp.org - replication-receiver Chisinau City Hall has digitized the General Urban Plan (GUP) Chisinau and the Zonal Urban Plans (ZUP), developed in the period 2007-2020. This was …
Conservative View The Conservative Urbanist | The American Conservative theamericanconservative.com - Lewis McCrary American baby boomers came of age as suburbia was becoming king, in a time of big cars, free parking, and the romance of the open road. American …
The Conversation UKCities Slow down and embrace nature – how to create better cities when the pandemic is over The Conversation UK - Björn Wickenberg Throughout the past year of working from home, I have gone for numerous morning, lunchtime and evening walks around my neighbourhood in the Eastern …
Dallas A New Plan for Tearing Down I-345 - D Magazine dmagazine.com - Peter Simek The Toole Design Group's I-345 Framework Plan, an update to TxDOT's highway study, offers detailed analysis of how removing an urban highway would …
New York PostCoronavirus (COVID-19) Residents in packed cities aren’t more likely to get COVID-19, study says New York Post - By Hannah Sparks Say what you will about New York’s giant rats, Los Angeles’ smog and Chicago’s crime rates, but these crowded cites are not more likely to put …
Urban Planning Jane Jacob's Walk festival 2021 in New York from May 3 – May 9, 2021 - Virtual worldarchitecture.org - WA Contents Celebrating Jane Jacobs and New York City, May 3-9! Throughout the challenges of the past year, many of us at MAS have found ourselves inspired in new …
Jewelry Wearable Architecture: Anokhi Parikh's New Jewellery Line visi.co.za WORDS Gareth van Niekerk IMAGES Nick Boulton MODEL Thandiswa Mazwai A new jewellery line by a Johannesburg-based designer explores the African …
Naperville Parklets, tents, food alleys: Suburbs continue expanded outdoor dining this year dailyherald.com - Susan Sarkauskas Once upon a time -- back in 2019 -- outdoor dining in suburban towns meant sipping your soup on a restaurant's patio or huddling over a tiny two-top …
Fast CompanyCities Great parks don’t just have rec space. They create jobs verified_publisherFast Company - By Nate BergA new study by the Knight Foundation shows what makes a good park great—an important insight as cities consider how to spend federal relief money. In normal times, public spaces and parks meet an important...
Design Why NFTs Matter to Urban Planning planetizen.com - Planetizen With non-fungible tokens (NFTs) reshaping the art and collectibles world, city and regional planners can learn valuable lessons about ways to improve …
Global NewsQuébec Downtown of the future: What Montreal’s city centre might look like when COVID passes Global News - Annabelle Olivier The impact of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic on Montreal’s downtown core is no secret. The office towers remain mostly empty as work from home …
Cities Significant price tag expected for Calgary's proposed downtown plan calgaryherald.com - Amanda Stephenson, Calgary Herald A proposed plan to rescue Calgary’s ailing downtown will come at a “substantial” cost to the public purse, civic officials said Thursday.City council …
Environment Throwing Shade on Climate Change ted.com - Jeremy Hoffman Within a city, temperature can fluctuate greatly between different areas, sometimes by nearly 20 degrees. The explanation for this phenomenon may be …
Atlanta Takeaways from first planning meetings for Underground Atlanta’s rebirth urbanize.city - Josh Green Downtown Atlantans waiting for the city’s storied subterranean entertainment district to be reborn as a vibrant urban community have endured years of …
Cities 3 pressing urban problems Indian cities must solve in the post-COVID recovery verified_publisherweforum.org - Suchi Kedia • The pandemic revealed how Indian cities dependent on those working in the informal economy. • There are three critical shortcomings in Indian city …
Urbanism How to build a city that prioritizes public health eurekalert.org - Colorado State University Most people by now have memorized the public health guidelines meant to help minimize transmission of COVID-19: wash your hands, wear a mask, keep …
Urbanism Rethinking community garden siting in the Valley asu.edu - David Rozul ASU researchers develop new spatial model for strategically choosing the location of urban community gardens Across the Phoenix metropolitan area …
Cities Cities beyond bureaucracy: Exploring commons-based strategies resilience.org - Yavor Tarinski I think these are the two conflicting urban visions today: the one is about a top-down enforced homogenization and zoning of the city, and then there …
Cities Sioux Falls City Council drills parking department on advisory boards, transparency of parking lot sales argusleader.com - Trevor J. Mitchell City councilors are frustrated with the city's public parking department, asking why advisory boards aren't meeting and questioning the transparency …
University of Pennsylvania The University of Chicago, Urban Renewal, and the Black Community aaihs.org - James Bradley “It is not possible to operate and maintain a great university in a deteriorating or slum neighborhood,” proclaimed University of
Conservative View Our Mediterranean Civilization | The American Conservative theamericanconservative.com - Theo Mackey Pollack If April is the cruelest month, then January and February are the most democratic, meting out their long misery in an evenhanded gray across the …
