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The Myth of the 'Childless City'
It is conventional wisdom that suburbs are more attractive to families with children than cities. But in fact, the most dense urban cores are gaining children to a greater extent than their suburbs.
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Take Me Out to the City
Architecture critic Paul Goldberger analyzes the evolution of baseball stadiums and celebrates their essential connection to cities in "Ballpark: Baseball in the American City."
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Fun With Statistics: Factors Affecting Motor Vehicle Travel
A few graphs provide insights into factors that affect the amount of motor vehicle travel in a community, and how driving can be reduced.
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Urban Planning and the Democratic Debate Field
The Democratic Party will hold a two-day debate event, starting tonight. It's time to brush up on the positions of the leading candidates on policies and politics relate to housing, climate change, and infrastructure.
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How 3D Printing and Modeling Are Revolutionizing Urban Planning
The applications for 3D technology in the field of planning are multiplying and diversifying.
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Immigration and Urban Growth
After growing in the first half of the decade, some cities might be losing population. Is this because of the pace of immigration has slowed?
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Which Tech Giant is Best Suited to Understand Cities?
The company that best understands what drives city residents’ decisions is best suited to untangle persistent urban problems.
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Do Denser Neighborhoods Have Safer Streets?
Erick Guerra of the University of Pennsylvania writes about a recent article he co-authored in the Journal of Planning Education and Research
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Automobile Dependency in Action
These examples illustrate how biased planning favors longer-distance, motorized travel over shorter, active, affordable, energy efficient, less polluting, and healthier travel options, and sprawl over compact infill development. It's time for reform.
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Survey: What Are the Best Mobile Apps for Planning?
Planetizen needs your input in creating the definitive list of mobile apps for professional, student, academic, or citizen planners.
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A (Possible) Case of Suburban Retrofit
Retrofitting suburbia may be a challenge in a small town with high birth rates.
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Breaking the Cycle of Automobile Dependency
Many current planning practices reinforce a cycle of increased automobile use, more automobile-oriented community redevelopment, and reduced mobility options. There are good reasons to break this pattern.
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New Urbanism and Jacobs: A Tangled Disconnect
New Urbanism was in part born of the criticisms of 20th century planning principles popularized by Jane Jacobs, but Jacobs infamously derided the new school of thought.
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Stampede of New Residents Challenges Fort Worth
An interview with Fort Worth Planning and Development Director Randle Harwood on the planning practices and ideas driving the future of one of the nation's fastest growing cities.
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Census Releases New City Population Change Estimates
The U.S. Census released new population and housing units estimates for cities today. Phoenix added more residents between July 2017 and July 2018 than any city in the country.
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The Wonderful World of Vicious Circles
Government's pro-sprawl and anti-density policies often create problems that justify more of the same.
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Analyzing Lynch's City Imageability in the Digital Age
Mahbubur Meenar of Rowan University writes about a recent article he co-authored in the Journal of Planning Education and Research
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A Transit Agency Showdown, and You Have the Power to Choose the Winner
It's a popularity contest, sure, but it's our popularity contest.
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Planning for Future Cities Today With Urban Nexus Science
The Urban Nexus is an approach to sustainability that seeks to integrate sectors and silos int he design and development process.
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4 Regulatory Complications of 5G Infrastructure Development
The implementation of 5G Internet infrastructure raises fundamental questions about how private companies operate in the public realm. Don't expect easy answers.
Harvard University Graduate School of Design
KFH Group Inc.
Greater Baltimore Committee
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.
