After the flood of 2008, the Cedar Rapids City Council held a series of open houses in the Neighborhood Planning Process, asking residents to provide feedback on what they hope for in both the ...

Given how important they are, we know remarkably little about how cities actually work. Learning how to magnify the best aspects of city life–creativity, innovation, cultural fusion–while mitigating ...

A large oak tree is known as “Chuck Norris” at Harwood Park on Friday, Sept. 15, 2023, in Dallas. Well-planned urban parks, like the ones here in Dallas, encourage sustainable urban design principles, ...

This course introduces professional practices in urban planning and design. The course applies a broad understanding of the principles, policies and practices of urban planning in analysing ...

This module aims to introduce and explore the fundamentals of urban design through the evaluation of urban design masterplans and design/planning policy. It is intended to develop core urban design ...

Heading home from Santa Rosa a few weeks ago, I was surprised to find that I had to wait 15 minutes to exit Highway 101 in downtown Windsor. For those of us living in Windsor, traffic jams happen ...

Thirty years ago, Scene writer Christine Kreyling trained her attention on one downtown boulevard that looked, to her, like a huge mistake. City planners had proposed a massive arterial road in part ...

This progressive competition is being led by the McEwen School of Architecture (MSoA) in collaboration with the Greater Sudbury community. It is a competition that offers the opportunity for entrants ...

Metro Manila’s urban landscape is often dominated by concrete, but Mapúa University is helping to change that by providing a research-based blueprint for revitalizing green spaces.