Would capping office space ease San Francisco’s housing crunch? ~design urban planning Article 4 votes
UrbanFootprint: A SimCity-like tool that lets urban planners see the potential impact of their ideas ~tech Article 1353 words, published Apr 11 2018 6 votes
New York’s Penn Station shows how progressives have made it too hard for the government to do big things ~transport Article 324 words, published Nov 29 2019 10 votes
Scandinavia is famous for its liveable cities, but a new university course in Nordic urban planning has raised questions about replicating the region's approach elsewhere ~design urban planning Article 1906 words 8 votes
How Helsinki built book heaven – Finland's most ambitious library is a kind of monument to the Nordic model of civic engagement ~design architecture urban planning Article 7 votes
The Dutch hardly bike at all ~design urban planning Article 712 words, published Jun 11 2018 12 votes
Frank Gehry's most ambitious project: Restoring the Los Angeles River ~design urban planning Article 3024 words 6 votes
Banning cars on San Francisco’s Market Street, once a radical idea, approved unanimously ~transport Article 1079 words 10 votes
Stairs to nowhere are everywhere these days. Where are they taking us? ~design architecture urban planning Article 1282 words 7 votes
The greening of Paris makes its mayor more than a few enemies ~design urban planning Article 1506 words 9 votes
The reason our streets switched to cul-de-sacs ~design urban planning Video 7:45, published Aug 8 2019 4 votes
Indonesia will build its new capital city in Borneo as Jakarta sinks into the Java Sea ~design urban planning Article 335 words 11 votes
Copenhagen has taken bicycle commuting to a whole new level ~design urban planning Article 1201 words 5 votes
Why speed kills cities: US cities are dropping urban speed limits in an effort to boost safety and lower crash rates. But the benefits of less-rapid urban mobility don’t end there ~transport Article 7 votes
Want safe, bikeable streets? Get rid of free parking, as Amsterdam did ~design urban planning Article 916 words 14 votes
Suburb in the sky: How Jakartans built an entire village on top of a mall ~life housing Article 877 words 9 votes
A small city with big delusions: Pine Island, MN (population 3,000) has huge dreams, yet they can’t take care of their basic systems. Who pays the price? ~design urban planning Article 862 words, published Jul 30 2019 8 votes
Shade: It’s a civic resource, an index of inequality, and a requirement for public health. Shade should be a mandate for urban designers ~design urban planning architecture Article 6427 words, published Apr 1 2019 11 votes
Europe’s cities weren’t built for this kind of heat ~design urban planning architecture Article 21 votes
Blasting work has started in Bergen on building the longest bicycle and pedestrian tunnel in the world ~transport Link 10 votes
It’s official: Electric scooters in Denver aren’t going anywhere ~transport Article 443 words, published Jul 18 2019 5 votes
Vanished neighbourhoods: The areas lost to urban renewal ~design urban planning Article 1356 words 6 votes
Finland invited me to visit and to learn all about the country's smart cities projects ~design urban planning Article 305 words 4 votes
Oregon just voted to legalize duplexes on almost every city lot ~design urban planning Article 1363 words 11 votes
If only experienced cyclists feel safe in a bike lane, then is it a bike lane at all? In Vancouver, a shift to “AAA” (all ages and abilities) bike lanes ~design urban planning Article 1428 words 15 votes
The city of tomorrow: What decarbonized, climate-resilient, and equitable cities could look like ~enviro climate change Article 4791 words 7 votes