Most Read This Week In Urban Planning

Urban planning, also known as town planning, city planning, regional planning, or rural planning, is a technical and political process that is focused on the development and design of land use and the built environment, including air, water, and the infrastructure passing into and out of urban areas, such as transportation, communications, and distribution networks and their accessibility. Many professional practitioners of urban planning, especially practitioners with the title "urban planner" study urban planning education, while some paraprofessional practitioners are educated in urban stud ...more

Most Read This Week Tagged "Urban Planning"

Life After Cars: Freeing Ourselves from the Tyranny of the Automobile

Homelessness Is a Housing Problem: How Structural Factors Explain U.S. Patterns

Shade: The Promise of a Forgotten Natural Resource

The Land Trap: A New History of the World's Oldest Asset

The Great Displacement: Climate Change and the Next American Migration

Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age

Born in Flames: The Business of Arson and the Remaking of the American City

A Paradise of Small Houses: The Evolution, Devolution, and Potential Rebirth of Urban Housing

Stuck: How the Privileged and the Propertied Broke the Engine of American Opportunity

Imagine a City: A Pilot's Journey Across the Urban World

Arbitrary Lines: How Zoning Broke the American City and How to Fix It

A Natural History of Empty Lots: Field Notes from Urban Edgelands, Back Alleys, and Other Wild Places

American Oasis: Finding the Future in the Cities of the Southwest

The Price is Wrong: Why Capitalism Won't Save the Planet

Killed by a Traffic Engineer: Shattering the Delusion that Science Underlies Our Transportation System

Portal: San Francisco's Ferry Building and the Reinvention of American Cities

Billionaires' Row: Tycoons, High Rollers, and the Epic Race to Build the World's Most Exclusive Skyscrapers

Carmageddon: How Cars Make Life Worse and What to Do About It

Engineering in Plain Sight: An Illustrated Field Guide to the Constructed Environment

Emergent Tokyo: Designing the Spontaneous City

Gentrification Is Inevitable and Other Lies

Fixer-Upper: How to Repair America's Broken Housing Systems

Confessions of a Recovering Engineer: Transportation for a Strong Town

Everything Now: Lessons from the City-State of Los Angeles

The Northeast Corridor: The Trains, the People, the History, the Region

Dividing Lines: How Transportation Infrastructure Reinforces Racial Inequality

Borderlines: A History of Europe, Told from the Edges

Living Disability: Building Accessible Futures for Everybody

When Driving Is Not an Option: Steering Away from Car Dependency

Against Landlords: How to Solve the Housing Crisis

Disillusioned: Five Families and the Unraveling of America's Suburbs

52 Ways to Walk: The Surprising Science of Walking for Wellness and Joy, One Week at a Time

The Lost Subways of North America: A Cartographic Guide to the Past, Present, and What Might Have Been

The Injustice of Place: Uncovering the Legacy of Poverty in America

The Swamp Peddlers: How Lot Sellers, Land Scammers, and Retirees Built Modern Florida and Transformed the American Dream

Two Wheels Good: The History and Mystery of the Bicycle

Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall

Sunbelt Blues: The Failure of American Housing

"They Just Need to Get a Job": 15 Myths on Homelessness

Our Crumbling Foundation: How We Solve Canada's Housing Crisis

On the Move: The Overheating Earth and the Uprooting of America

The Nature of Our Cities: Harnessing the Power of the Natural World to Survive a Changing Planet

Build, Baby, Build: The Science and Ethics of Housing Regulation

City Limits: Infrastructure, Inequality, and the Future of America's Highways

Excluded: How Snob Zoning, NIMBYism, and Class Bias Build the Walls We Don't See

Disrupting D.C.: The Rise of Uber and the Fall of the City

Urban Jungle: The History and Future of Nature in the City

Speculative Futures: Design Approaches to Navigate Change, Foster Resilience, and Co-create the Cities We Need

Inclusive Transportation: A Manifesto for Repairing Divided Communities

American Urbanist: How William H. Whyte's Unconventional Wisdom Reshaped Public Life

City Authentic: How the Attention Economy Builds Urban America

New York, New York, New York: Four Decades of Success, Excess, and Transformation

Curbing Traffic: The Human Case for Fewer Cars in Our Lives

In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower: How Universities Are Plundering Our Cities

Soul City: Race, Equality, and the Lost Dream of an American Utopia

The Black Butterfly: The Harmful Politics of Race and Space in America

City of Segregation: 100 Years of Struggle for Housing in Los Angeles

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Quotes Tagged “Urban Planning”

“ That’s Manhattan today—all the money goes up top, while the infrastructure wastes away from neglect. The famous skyline is a cheap trick now, a sleight-of-hand to draw your eye from the truth, as illusory as a bodybuilder with osteoporosis. ”
― Andrew Vachss, Mask Market

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“ [...] most American cities have been designed or redesigned principally around the assumption of universal automotive use, resulting in obligatory car ownership, typically one per adult—starting at age sixteen. In these cities, and in most of our nation, the car is no longer an instrument of freedom, but rather a bulky, expensive, and dangerous prosthetic device, a prerequisite to viable citizenship. ”
― Jeff Speck, Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time

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