Can a Team of Architects and Planners Fix New York City’s Trash Problem?
The Zero Waste Guidelines are aimed at helping the city reach its goal of sending no garbage to landfills by 2030.
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What Tokyo Can Teach Us About Designing a City for Mental Health
A new report assesses how Tokyo's infrastructure affects residents' emotional well-being, offering lessons for other cities.
Sean Chen’s Dream of a Better Future
"If I can one day visit a place and say that I helped make it a more livable and beautiful place, I'll be happy," says Chen, who's on our list of this year's most exciting young thinkers.
Is New Mexico’s Massive New Housing Development Primed for Failure?
Fighting sprawl in Albuquerque’s South Valley.
Want Green Infrastructure? First, Invest in Infrastructure
That’s not all that needs to be done, but it may be a necessary first step, researchers argue.…
Small Cities Need More Help With ‘Extreme Events’
Worldwide, small to mid-sized cities are growing at a fast rate. But does a city’s ability to handle…
City Growth Is Weirdly Predictable
Researchers unearth a simple pattern of population growth and decline in four major cities in the U.S. and…
How the Eternal City’s Building Craze Also Bolstered Urban Planning
A look at the architectural archives from 17th-century Rome. By Steve Moyer Palazzo Aldobrandini. (Photo: sailko/Wikimedia Commons) As…
How to Build a Mosque in Brussels
Brussels leaders have long sought to make its Muslim communities invisible, but haven't openly acknowledged that was their goal.
How Conservative Pundits Have Become the Most Vocal Champions of Smart Urban Planning
A new generation of conservative pundits is cheerfully blurring the line between red and blue—by embracing smart growth and New Urbanism.