Urban Planning

The city of Amsterdam is known for its picturesque canals, historic buildings, and world-renowned museums such as the Rijksmuseum and Van Gogh Museum. We thought it would be interesting to imagine Amsterdam in the future based on a number of themes. The canals of Amsterdam are one of the city’s…

I come from a cultural melting pot of a city whose reputation ranges from being one of the world’s strongest democracies to the home of the country’s worst drivers. Though I was born in Manhattan and grew up for many years in a New Jersey suburb, Washington, D.C. is the…

Downtown DC. Oh, Downtown.. What comes to mind when you think of Downtown? Is it this?

by Nadia Soultanova — Head of Urban Network at Urban Impact Ventures Last year we published our four mobility principles where we explain our vision of sustainable urban mobility. In our first principle, we stated that public transit should be the backbone of future sustainable urban mobility. In this article…

The Black Urbanist Weekly with Kristen Jeffers for January 27, 2023 My urbanism is enough because we are an interconnected web of urbanisms. This is The Black Urbanist Weekly with Kristen Jeffers, an email newsletter that highlights the Black Queer Feminist Urbanist thoughts and commentary of me, Kristen E. Jeffers, an internationally-known urban planner, fiber designer, and contributing editor. Think of this…

There’s something special about cities. Something that appeals to our deepest human urges we developed through natural selection millennia ago: our want to seek out a community, a group of people that can keep us safe. We could all live alone, growing our own food, keeping to ourselves, but we…

Read how New York City is encouraging on-site water reuse systems at the building and district-scale. By Robert C. Brears Water security and green growth worldwide are at risk from various climatic and non-climatic trends, including rapid population growth and urbanisation, economic growth and rising income levels, ageing infrastructure, and…