Exclusives
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A Year's Worth of Music About Places
Musicians from all varieties of musical genres spent the past year pondering, celebrating, and complicating our perception of places.
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A New Metric for Community Resilience
Though the need for resilient communities is obvious, exactly how to measure resilience is less obvious. Edward J. Jepson, Jr. provides a new metric of the evidence of a community's resilience and produces a corresponding ranking of 30 U.S. cities.
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How Lizards Can Teach Planners About Designing Cities
Ecologists offer scientific lessons in how to better build cities for humans and wildlife.
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Getting Residents Engaged in Participatory Mapping
Participatory mapping has become an increasingly popular planning tool. The examples that follow highlight how communities are using participatory mapping.
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Doing Well By Doing Good: Passive House and Affordable Housing
Pennsylvania finds proof that Passive House standards can be built at affordable housing prices, after the Pennsylvania Housing Finance Agency incorporated Passive House benchmarks into its Low Income Housing Tax Credit application.
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Which Suburbs Have Futures?
The suburbs most likely to prosper are those with wealth and/or walkability.
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Let's Talk Water
Water has been an integral part of the designed landscape for centuries, but is it time to reevaluate its relevance?
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It's Snowing—There's An App for Tracking That
A snow storm came through overnight, your street hasn't been cleared. When can you expect to have your street cleared? Cities are increasingly providing snowplow tracking information to residents.
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Top 10 Websites - 2015
The annual list of the ten best planning, design, and development websites, representing some of the top online resources for news, information, and research on the built environment.
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The Best Planning Apps for 2016
A list of mobile apps that support planning, as part of an annual update. Learn about exciting new ways to explore cities and enhance planning via mobile apps. Please feel free to add your own favorites.
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Two Types of Black Suburbanization
African-American migration may reflect an attempt to escape poverty-related social ills rather than an attempt to escape gentrification.
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Top Planning Trends of 2015
Pulling a few threads to unravel some of the biggest planning stories of the year.
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Ways to Think About Sprawl—and to Critique It
What motivates sprawl? It's more than just automobile infrastructure.
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All I Want for Christmas Is a Driverless Car
An op-ed describes some of the not-so-hard to imagine drawbacks of a world full of a world full of self-driving cars.
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The Most Popular Planetizen Posts of 2015
The results of a year's worth of writing, reading, sharing, and commenting are in. These are the most popular Planetizen posts from the year 2015.
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Implications for Planning Emerge From COP21
The Conference of Parties (COP21) held during the last two weeks in Paris establishes ambitious climate change emission reduction targets. This will be a challenge and opportunity for planners. Here are some highlights.
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Top 10 Books - 2016
Planetizen is pleased to release its list of the ten best books in urban planning, design, and development published in 2015.
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How to Teach About Sprawl (and Law)
Describing a seminar on "Sprawl and the Law" at the University of Pittsburgh.
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Add Complexity to Your Life
The City of Calgary aims to restore 20 percent of its open space to increase biodiversity. Complex nature is—and needs to be seen as—foundational to our day-to-day lives, both for our well being, and the health of nature itself.
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Ask the Ethicist: Conflict of Interest and Constitutional Rights
Planetizen resident ethicist Carol D. Barrett, FAICP, images a scenario that highlights the distinction between citizen and planner, and where sometimes it's inappropriate to cross the line between the two.
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.
