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Planning Consensus Game

New Planning Games Focuses on Consensus Building

A new game called Imaginable Guidelines invites participants to imagine, explore, discuss, and share their vision for the future.

March 7, 2019 - CityLab

Congestion

Friday Funny: The Onion Considers the Pros and Cons of Congestion Pricing

The satirical news website The Onion must have seen the big news out of New York this week.

March 1, 2019 - The Onion

The red carpet at the Oscars

Friday Fun: Oscars-Nominated Films Featuring Place in a Starring Role

Many of the movies nominated for Oscars this year gain a great deal of thematic and storytelling meaning from their locations.

February 22, 2019 - Brookings

Kids on the Street

Friday Funny: Pity the Fool Who Doesn't Yield to a Law-Abiding Pedestrian

A satirical article published by The Onion tells a familiar tale.

February 15, 2019 - The Onion

Administration building at the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, on opening day, May 1, 1893

Daniel Burnham: Appearing Soon on Television Screens

Make no unbingeable television, or something like that.

February 12, 2019 - Variety

Mercedes-Benz Stadium

Sunday Fun: The Super Bowl in Atlanta on Social Media

Traffic and cars play a central role in the social media chatter surrounding the Super Bowl in Atlanta.

February 3, 2019 - Planetizen

Coastal City

Friday Funny: The Onion Brings Climate Change Close to Home

The Onion's satirical news skills are put to use in canvassing public opinion about climate change.

February 1, 2019 - The Onion

Munich Train

Scarf Depicting Rail Delays Sells for $8,650

A German rail commuter recorded each day’s travel by knitting a scarf.

January 28, 2019 - The New York Times

Subway Station

A Better Travel Experience

Transportation engineers sometimes treat people as objects to be moved as quickly and cheaply as possible from one location to another, but people have preferences and feelings which should be considered when planning transport systems.

January 17, 2019 - Todd Litman

Imaginary Maps

Friday Funny: Imagining Taco Bell-Oriented Rail Transit

A Reddit user created a transit map of the San Francisco Bay Area that connects Taco Bell locations, which, unlike rail public transit, have reached every corner of the region.

January 4, 2019 - Reddit

Gas Works Park

A Celebratory (and Snarky) Take on the Year in Architecture

Curbed stays true to form with an annual review of the year in architecture.

December 28, 2018 - Curbed

Burning Man

Friday Funny: The 'Best Urban Planning Memes of 2018'

A dispatch from the golden era of planning memes.

December 28, 2018 - Planning Peeps

Minneapolis, Minnesota

Most Popular Planning Articles of 2018

We crunched the numbers on all the features, blog posts, and news articles we published in 2018 to figure out which made the biggest splash with readers.

December 27, 2018 - James Brasuell

Tesla Roadster

Friday Funny: A Play About Elon Musk's Hubris, in Shakespearean Blank Verse

Looking for a way to forget about the Boring Company for a little while? You've come to the wrong place.

December 21, 2018 - Cult MTL

Paris Metro

Songs About Places - 2018

The 2018 edition of an annual playlist of songs about places by critically acclaimed and popular bands.

December 13, 2018 - James Brasuell

CTA Purple Line train

Fans of Transit and/or Chicago: We Have a Card Game for You

The card game LOOP was made by people who obviously put in some serious time hanging from straps on the L.

December 8, 2018 - CityLab

Bike Infrastructure

Friday Funny: The Onion Eviscerates Bike Planning

More scathing satire from The Onion, which continues a long history of dissecting the priorities of society as reflected in the built environment and the public realm.

December 7, 2018 - The Onion

The Nutcracker

Planning Finally Gets a Role in the Ballet

We've seen planning take the Broadway stage and turned into an Oprah, but perhaps the ballet is the most surprising place to see planning ideas on the stage.

December 6, 2018 - Next City

'Don't Be a Turkey: Ride Transit'

The Regional Transit Authority took to the streets of Chicago to drum up support for transit, and transit funding, this Thanksgiving.

November 22, 2018 - RTAChicago via YouTube

Jeff Bezos and Donald Trump

Watch Saturday Night Live's Hilarious Take on Amazon's HQ2 Decision

Saturday Night Love comes up with a novel hot take on the thinking behind Amazon's decision to split its new second headquarters between New York City and Northern Virginia.

November 19, 2018 - The Washington Post

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