John Massengale and Victor Dover have revised their classic book on street design, vitally improving its organization and ...

When you live in a small town, you never expect its name to pop up in national news—nor, to be honest, do you ever really ...

Yes, but it requires patience, dedication, and cooperation among communities, businesses, regulators, and local governments.

Controversies surrounding vanity projects in the Global South have ignited a broader and long-standing debate about the ...

Sara Bronin’s new book, Key to the City: How Zoning Shapes Our World (Norton), is revelatory. It explains how zoning operates in the U.S., both its limitations and dynamic potentials for creating life ...

Planners are, by nature, patient and cautiously optimistic people. The exigencies of the job practically require it, where timelines are measured not in days, weeks, or years, but often in decades.

In the early 1980s, when I first saw the film The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces and then read the book, both by William H. Whyte, I was enthralled. I had met Holly, as he was affectionately known, ...

When people think about forward-thinking approaches to public space and landscape architecture, the Midwest and the Rust Belt are not often the first places that come to mind. More familiar images of ...

When I started it, I was interested in buses, because not a lot had been written about them as mass transit. They always get overlooked. Rail gets so much attention. I was interested in buses from a ...

It may shock some people to hear this, but architecture is not urban planning. It is not transportation planning, sociology, political science, or critical geography. However, architecture, new-build ...

In an era dominated by naked self-interest and polarizing political debates on climate change, a quiet revolution is taking place, regardless of the political landscape. The transformation of our ...

The building materials that are used to construct our homes absolutely make a difference to our human and planetary health. And while we can pick up a bag of chips or box of cereal and read the ...