Futurism
Toyota plans to break ground on the "Woven City" future city prototype in 2021.
Toyota
A journalist asked, so Jarrett Walker answered.
Human Transit
Blog post
The world is changing, and city planners are changing along with it.
The 'degrowth' concept at the heart of Planning 2052 recalls the Club of Rome’s publication of "The Limits to Growth" in 1972.
ArchDaily
With so much attention devoted to how technology will change roadways and vehicles, less speculation has attended to the ways technology will change walking.
Foreground
Autonomous vehicles have many evangelists, but perhaps they need more skeptics.
The Spectator
Some lucky people could be flying over traffic in autonomous drones within two years, according to a media blitz this morning.
CBS This Morning
Ten children, ages six through 12, were asked to draw the cars of the future, and then a professional illustrator touched up their ideas.
Quartz
Blog post
I put my Christmas wish in a little early this year—wanted to give Santa time to deliver, and it's not an easy wish to grant. No data, no graphs, no citations, just some thoughts to share.
Feature
At the 2017 Autonomous Vehicle Symposium, a group of experts were asked to predict the effects of autonomous vehicles in two case study communities, and to generate a list of proposed policy actions to prepare for a future of autonomous vehicles.
Some college campuses need more parking than others, depending on commuting rates and walkable housing supply. Some campus planners are hoping, however, that soon all universities will need a lot less parking.
The New York Times
Elon Musk's desire to tunnel a path to freedom from congestion refuses to die.
Wired
Feature
The implications of autonomous vehicles for social interactions are potentially vast.
Not all ideas are worth attention. What does the fact that ideas like Elon Musk's The Boring Company get so much attention say about the quality of civic discourse, or the potential for planning to improve the built environment?
The Baffler
After another big announcement from the realm of futuristic transportation, there's reason to remain skeptical.
Curbed
A new ad by Swedish public transit agency Västtrafik pulls quite a bait and switch.
The Verge
Faced with a surging population and a need for big new ideas, Crain's recently tasked 12 design and planning firms to conjure up creative ideas for the city.
Crain's New York Business
The Silicon Valley start-up devoted to reinventing the city made a splashy hire this week.
TechCrunch
There's no shortage of ambition from Silicon Valley startup accelerator and investment firm Y Combinator—which recently announced its intentions to build a prototype city.
Bloomberg
The World Economic Forum offers a reminder of just how drastically things could change, and soon, in cities.
Citiscope
