A weekly monitor of how Trump’s orders and actions are impacting planners and planning in America.
In California, Michigan and Georgia, an easy win is bringing dollars — and delight — back to city centers.
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.
Like the U.S. in the mid-20th Century, much of the growth in Abu Dhabi over the last 35 years has catered primarily to the automobile. But new plans are re-wiring the city to make Abu Dhabi's streets more hospitable to pedestrians.
A Welsh company is using ground-up plastic remnants to create a building material sturdy enough for housing.
A new book argues that yes, the priorities of private property often trump those of democracy, community, free expression and life outside of the marketplace.
Jon Hockenyos makes a radical proposal that cities should establish their own terms for how much local property is worth, free of "market value", in order to unstick frozen property markets.
In Corpus Christi, Texas, a park development fee on inner city properties has developers crying foul, claiming it discourages development in inner cities where it should be encouraged.
