SimCity is one of the greatest video game franchises of all time, if only because it demonstrates something important: Designing a city from scratch is very hard, and it’s impossible to make everyone ...

“Urban Innovation” are two words I hear in tandem a lot these days, along with “civic hackathon” and “crowdsourced urbanism.” Contrary to what you might think, these buzzwords have not been coined by ...

When students at Hughes STEM High School in Cincinnati were asked back in 2016 what part of their school they’d like to improve, they identified Coy Field – an athletic field they use for baseball, ...

Strategis Groep, a leading Dutch technology firm, introduces the 3D Cityplanner, an AI-powered urban planning platform that allows professionals to design, visualize, and simulate city layouts ...

Urban and regional planners develop plans and programs for the use of land. They use planning to create communities, accommodate growth, or revitalize physical facilities in towns, cities, counties, ...

Cars are such a central part of American life that we often do not realize how dependent our day-to-day survival is reliant on consistent access to a vehicle. However, cities and towns were not always ...

L.A. urban planner James Rojas asks ordinary citizens to think about how they interact with the city. Often, he uses toys and random objects to help them visualize their communities. Credit: James ...

This blog post was authored by Jeff Kuhnhenn, AIA, LEED AP, Director of Architectural Design, Gresham Smith. Over the past 40 years, there has been a slow but radical realignment in how designers and ...

Prior to joining the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Justin Garrett Moore served as executive director of the New York City Public Design Commission. Before that, he was a longtime senior urban designer ...

Finding out which are the best countries in urban planning is a tricky quest since the term “urban planning” covers many categories. The term includes many different activities that have the overall ...

An urban planner or city planner is a professional who works in the field of urban planning/land use planning for the purpose of optimizing the effectiveness of a community's land use and ...