city planning

2 min read 2022-01-08 06:50:41

Toward more multi-family housing

This recent article by Brookings is a good reminder of the all too important link between land use policies/patterns and GHG emissions. Because

2 min read 2021-12-29 01:24:33

Hermetic Library Fellow T Polyphilus reviews The Hidden Dimension [Amazon, Bookshop, Publisher, Local Library] by Edward T Hall. The Hidden

3 min read 2021-12-12 20:18:00

It took the City Planning Department 18 months to produce the report on the city’s jobs-housing fit that the Board of Supes asked for, but it came

4 min read 2021-12-02 22:49:28

This week we’re joined by Linda Samuels, associate professor of urban design at Washington University in St. Louis, to talk about her book

5 min read 2021-12-02 04:23:35

There are some maps that, at first look (or second, or one-hundredth), seem to offer more questions than answers. It can surely be said that the map

1 min read 2021-11-24 20:00:45

In October 2020, Bill de Blasio’s administration proposed an upzoning of the SoHo/NoHo neighborhood that would add 3,200 housing units over 10

1 min read 2021-11-24 08:56:36

Toronto’s chief planner Gregg Lintern (who you can follow over here on Twitter) was recently in the Toronto Star talking about the city’s plans

1 min read 2021-11-22 18:06:40

Location is, and has always been, everything in real estate. The truism that where a property sits must be its most important characteristic remains

1 min read 2021-11-17 02:48:03

The Cleveland City Planning Commission will hold a Special Joint Committee & Commission meeting on Tuesday, Nov. 30 at 2 p.m. to review the

1 min read 2021-11-09 07:36:18

A parking review was just done by @CityPlanTO and the resulting staff recommendation is going to include the removal of most parking minimums across

1 min read 2021-11-02 09:19:35

Vitalik Buterin — who is best known as the cofounder of Ethereum — recently penned this post on his blog where he argues that “crypto cities

1 min read 2021-07-18 14:12:46

Typical “morido” terrace formation for housing development The disastrous mudslide that hit the city of Atami on July 3 brought attention to the

1 min read 2021-06-25 17:22:23

Rethink Re:Place is a New Union project that makes place-making user-friendly by offering training opportunities and upskilling techniques. The

1 min read 2021-05-21 10:49:46

Welcome back, readers. April was a relatively quiet month for critical videos, which was frankly relieving after the madness of March. Still,

1 min read 2021-05-17 01:22:03

In the summer of 2022, Helsingborg invites the world to be a part of their H22 City Expo and ‘Urban Future’ will kick off the Expo on June 1 to