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Urbanism
Feature
Planetizen's annual list of the best of the planning Internet gives a taste of the technological and editorial milieu of the urban planning Internet at the beginning of a new decade.
Can't tell New Urbanism from YIMBY? This post tries to help.
Greater Greater Washington
Which technologies have had the biggest impact on urban life and the built environment in the 2010s, according to Curbed.
Curbed
Seattle has achieved unparalleled success in allowing residents the option to choose not to own a car.
The Seattle Times
A new book looks at the evolution of American ballparks and the changes that have mirrored urbanism.
Curbed
Leonardo Da Vinci gets credit for many inventions and creative breakthroughs, but his contributions to the theory of city making gets less credit.
CityLab
Blog post
After 12 days of walking the Portuguese Camino, the importance of many urban planning and development debates—from balanced growth to banning cars—became abundantly clear.
Feature
Capital City casts planners as lackeys, serving the forces of capitalism.
Feature
The plans, they are a-changin.
Blog post
A recent book brings a common sense framework to historic preservation debates.
Blog post
Looking forward to 2019, Chuck Wolfe reflects on how time living in London—and exposure to many other places during 2018— has highlighted how the physical shell of the old often frames today's sociocultural realities around the world.
The City Council overcame a last minute legal challenge to approve the Minneapolis 2040 Comprehensive Plan late last week.
Star Tribune
"Yes we actually did that."
Sightline Institute
Charles Wolfe calls attention to similarities between contemporary urbanism and yesterday's debunked utopias. The two may differ in substance, but both tend toward a certain level of dogma that isn't necessarily helpful on the ground.
Public Square: A CNU Journal
Blog post
A new era of civic-minded, urbanism-focused technology is here.
What does the flavor of your drink say about the flavor of your urbanism?
The Market Urbanism Report
Black Panther is a smash hit with critics and audiences. In addition to long-needed perspective about race, the movie has presented urbanism in a new light.
CityLab
A development proposal would add two new buildings in addition to major renovations in Larimer Square.
The Denver Post
Like so many other transportation policies, congestion pricing risks being sold for the wrong reasons.
StreetsBlog NYC
The product of a single developer, San Jose's Santana Row is a pocket of urbanism in a sea of sprawl. But can it influence development patterns beyond its bounds, and should it?
Public Square
