Exclusives
FEATURE
To privatize, or not to privatize? Lessons from Britain and Japan's railwaysWhen Britain and Japan faced the consequences of monopolistic public transit, both countries divided their transit up into regional private companies — and saw very different outcomes.
BLOG POST
A much-needed revamp of the best way to approach design
Book review: “Designing the Complex City: A Systemic Approach to Spatial Design” translates complex theory into actionable tools for planners, architects and more.
BLOG POST
Congestion Costing Reality Check, Part 3: Smart congestion relief
There are many better ways to reduce congestion in your city than expensive roadway expansion projects. Win-win strategies reduce congestion and provide many other benefits.
BLOG POST
A Transect of sprawl
A development pattern this lifestyle-defining deserves its whole own classification system.
BLOG POST
Is AI really the Panacea to our permitting woes?
Let’s have a look at what’s happening on the ground.
BLOG POST
Transit Planning 201: The unfunded mandate
How the ADA transformed accessibility, and created one of public transportation’s thorniest operational challenges.
FEATURE
What the fall of earth's largest pre-industrial city can teach us about urban sprawl
Angkor was a low-density metropolis. It lasted six centuries, until it could no longer maintain its infrastructure in a changing climate. Today, it offers planners a sobering warning about the risks of dispersed urban living.
FEATURE
Planning schools aren’t preparing us for data centers — and communities are paying the price
We can change that.
FEATURE
Op-ed: Federal austerity is funding what kills us
Tracing the backstory of the last year of cuts to multimodal transportation reveals an alarming definition of road safety that only serves one mode.
BLOG POST
Reigniting the city-building revolution
Review: In “The Unfinished Metropolis," Benjamin Schneider argues for us to look abroad for help in returning to a long-lost American art: city-building.
FEATURE
Urbanism before the plan
Some of the first cities emerged without rulers or blueprints. Planners are now trying to recover what that process does well.
FEATURE
Why city hall doesn't know your music venue is a music venue (and why that matters)
Data shows that cultural venues have long lacked proper classification — which is why so many fall through the cracks.
FEATURE
The future of GIS, explored
The pros and cons of ArcGIS Urban, CityEngine, AI assistants and more notes from the 2026 Esri User Conference.
FEATURE
A book summit just for planners
This October, the Booked on Planning podcast is hosting its first ever summit in celebration of all things related to publishing and planning.
BLOG POST
Book review: 'Sidewalk Nation: The Life and Law of America’s Most Overlooked Resource'
Far more than mere ribbons of concrete, author Michael Pollack argues that it's time we treat sidewalks as what they are: one of the most complex — and vital — pieces social infrastructure on earth.
FEATURE
The new Texas law declawing NIMBYs
State lawmakers gutted an old Jim Crow-era state law that required a city council supermajority to approve a new housing development if neighbors petitioned the proposal.
BLOG POST
Does every planner need an AI policy?
From a hundred-person agency to a one-person consultancy, the answer is yes. The difference is what “policy" means.
FEATURE
How Kansas City quietly built one of the best streetcars in America
A detailed and completely unbiased history of one of American transit's greatest comebacks.
FEATURE
The newest state on the virtual power plant frontier: Illinois
The state's "Clean and Reliable Grid Affordability Act" is the latest jumpstart for the VPP market, which turn individual homes into green energy producers.
FEATURE
Why a Colorado River water conservation agreement is so hard to reach
As the nation's two largest reservoirs hit their lowest levels on record, what would it take to avert the crisis? An expert weighs in.
City of Thousand Oaks
City of Wisconsin Rapids
Harvard University Graduate School of Design
The Architects Foundation
University of Cincinnati Online
The Pocatello Development Authority
The Urban Renewal Agency of the City of Pocatello
FREE Course: Walkable City 1: Why Walkability?
After describing his path towards focusing on walkability as the essence of good planning, Jeff Speck marches through his five principal reasons for making more walkable places.
Reinventing Malls: Planning Alchemy—Turning Gray Fields Into Gold
The course focuses on the opportunities and imperatives that shape reinvention of mall sites.
