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

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

Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World

The Privatization of Everything: How the Plunder of Public Goods Transformed America and How We Can Fight Back

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

Against Landlords: How to Solve the Housing Crisis

Why Nothing Works: Who Killed Progress―and How to Bring It Back

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

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

Emergent Tokyo: Designing the Spontaneous City

The Great Displacement: Climate Change and the Next American Migration

Two Wheels Good: The History and Mystery of the Bicycle

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

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

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

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

Sunbelt Blues: The Failure of American Housing

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

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

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

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

Living Disability: Building Accessible Futures for Everybody

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

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

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

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

Dividing Lines: How Transportation Infrastructure Reinforces Racial Inequality

Gentrification Is Inevitable and Other Lies

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

Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age

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

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

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

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

Shade: The Promise of a Forgotten Natural Resource

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

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

City Authentic: How the Attention Economy Builds Urban America

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Inclusive Transportation: A Manifesto for Repairing Divided Communities

Confessions of a Recovering Engineer: Transportation for a Strong Town

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

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

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

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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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“ ...frequent streets and short blocks are valuable because of the fabric of intricate cross-use that they permit among the users of a city neighbouhood. ”
― Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities

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