A collection about the Design of Cities , Roads and Walkable Spaces
Modern cities are designed for cars. But the city of Barcelona is testing out an urban design trick that can give cities back to pedestrians. Read ...
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ReGen village, in the Netherlands, will collect and store its own water and energy, grow its own food, and process much of its own waste. Also: no ...
In Pontevedra, the usual soundtrack of a Spanish city has been replaced by the tweeting of birds and the chatter of humans
Behavioral psychologist Ingrid Gehl influenced much of the thinking of her husband, the celebrated urbanist Jan Gehl. Imagine if all designers were...
They were planned after the second world war to whisk people above car-choked streets in the financial district, but remained unpopular and half-bu...
Introducing "superblocks." "In 2016, I wrote a brief story on “superblocks,” a hot new urban-planning idea out of Barcelona, Spain, that would r...
Cities around the world are starting to see that they’ll be cleaner, healthier, and just better overall if people–not cars–are the priority.
Don’t know your R1 from your FAR? We’re here to explain how zoning laws work, how these ordinances shape your city and neighborhood, and why we fig...
Want to lift retail takings? Get rid of cars. That's the conclusion from a new report from Transport for London.
Before she was reelected in June, Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo pledged to make more space on the streets of her adopted city for pedestrians and cyclis...
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