Institute of Urban And Regional Planning, Rachana Sansad, Mumbai
16/01/2023
The Utopian Architect and Planner the World (Mostly) Forgot While little known outside of France, architect and city planner Tony Garnier (1869-1948) is as closely associated with Lyon as Antoni Gaudí is with Barcelona.
18/07/2022
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The Evolution of Urban Planning in 10 Diagrams A new exhibit from the San Francisco Planning and Urban Research Association showcases the simple visualizations of complex ideas that have changed how we live.
30/06/2022
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Seven Stroads That Have Been Converted to Streets There are thousands of stroad sections in the US. Transforming a good number of them is important to to the goal of improving quality of life and mobility in cities and towns.
18/06/2022
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The Problem with Helicopter Urbanism It is important when we design a building or a neighborhood to look at how it feels and interacts with the street. Too often, new development feels designed from a helicopter’s-eye-view.
06/06/2022
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Heritage district among proposals studied by URA for future Paya Lebar Air Base site SINGAPORE: When the Paya Lebar Air Base is relocated in the 2030s, the site it currently sits on could transform into a heritage district, built around existing infrastructure such as the control tower, the hangars and the former passenger terminal buildings. This was one of the proposals put forth....
03/06/2022
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The Iconic Home Designs That Define Our Global Cities Sign up to get an email every time we publish a new story in this series by clicking “Follow This Storythread” above. To understand a city, start with the foundation. Floor plans from homes around the world explain how the way we live has shaped the design and architecture of urban neighborhoods...
07/05/2022
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Traditional Development Is a Municipal Gold Mine - The American Conservative Even the most run-down walkable block can be far more valuable than a shiny new drive-thru.
02/05/2022
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Niagara’s Fall and Asheville’s Unlikely Rise 70 years ago, these two historic cities were on a similar path. Then one fell into debt while the other was swimming in money. You might be surprised by what they each look like today.
23/03/2022
Form Without Function in Public Housing The newer generation of public housing projects offer a superficially pleasant facsimile of a New Urbanist neighborhood. But these are places built all at once, to a finished state, and deeply dependent on fragile institutional arrangements.
07/03/2022
Defining the 15-minute city The “15-minute city” may be defined as an ideal geography where most human needs and many desires are located within a travel distance of 15 minutes. Here’s what that means.
28/02/2022
Wall Street Is Buying Starter Homes to Quietly Become America’s Landlord Private equity money is pouring into the Phoenix real estate market, turning first-time homebuyers into renters.
21/02/2022
The real question is: how do we want our congestion? Do we want it in two lanes, four lanes, eight lanes or more?