A weekly monitor of how Trump’s orders and actions are impacting planners and planning in America.
SFUSD joins a growing list of school districts using their land holdings to address housing affordability challenges faced by their own employees.
Tim Halbur is communications director for the Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU), the leading organization promoting walkable, mixed-use neighborhood development, sustainable communities and healthier living conditions. He was managing editor of Planetizen from 2008 to 2011.
Blair Kamin applauds a new plaza at the Trump International Hotel + Tower, and calls an aging public space nearby 'an eyesore.'
Across the country, grey-to-green transformations are in the works, capping freeways to reconnect neighborhoods with urban parks.
Former Planetizen managing editor Christian Madera proposes that videoconferencing could revolutionize the public meeting because the entire proceedings could be "broken up and digitized."
"Participatory Chinatown" is a computer game designed to increase public participation in the planning process in Boston.
Filmmaker Keiichi Matsuda imagines a future where augmented reality is everywhere, blanketing the built environment with advertising and interactive elements.
