Education & Careers
Findings from graduating doctoral students undertaking urban-related research.
Penn IUR Urban Link
Looking for intellectual reinforcements as the country enters the third month of social distancing and stay-at-home-orders? Listen up.
The Architect's Newspaper
Big cities suffered the worst economic effects if the pandemic as of March, according to April data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Brookings
San Diego City Council President Georgette Gomez discusses the critical value of providing accessible and factual information and resources to the city’s diverse constituents during this unprecedented public health crisis.
The Planning Report
Professionals working in the built and natural environments have been through tough times before. A recent webinar offered a few prominent urban designers a chance to discuss how they coped with the last big economic downturn.
CNU Public Square
Feature
Online misinformation has been unavoidable, but the Internet is also full of tools essential for understanding the changed world of COVID-19.
Los Angeles Unified Superintendent Austin Beutner on the extensive and unprecedented challenges the district—its students, families, faculty and staff—face in the transition to remote ‘distance learning.’
The Planning Report
The Architecture Billings Index for March 2020 set new standards of collapse.
The Architect's Newspaper
The conference had been postponed with the potential of being rescheduled later this year.
The Architect's Newspaper
University of California Board of Regents Chair John A. Pérez shares the University of California's real-time response to the COVID-19 pandemic, highlighting economic and pedagogical impacts for the system.
The Planning Report
Listen in as planners discuss the response of the profession to the coronavirus pandemic in California.
APA California via YouTube
While cities may be shut down, city planners have not turned off the lights. Planning departments around California, which is mostly on lockdown, have resorted to working from home. Long-range planning could even benefit.
California Planning & Development Report
A sad day for the planning profession, as the American Planning Association makes the hard, but necessary decision to cancel the 2020 National Planning Conference.
American Planning Association
Planning conferences are among the events experiencing the effects of Coronavirus mitigation measures.
Chicago Tribune
Feature
Few social media sites offer the same kind of diversity of information and opinion to a field of study than Twitter does for planning.
The traditional narratives about the history of planning fail to note the role of Black urbanists, as well as the effect of planning policies on Black Americans.
Planning Magazine
Blog post
Sergio Peña, of El Colegio de la Frontera Norte in Mexico, writes about a recent article he authored in the Journal of Planing Education and Research.
Blog post
Urban analytics has the potential to benefit both planners and the world. Here' are a few ways that new data-based approaches can open new levels of analysis and understanding.
Feature
The most-read news, features, and blogs on Planetizen in 2019.
Winners of an annual award for innovation in planning curriculum were announced earlier this year, and applications for 2020's award will be open until February.
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