Blogs about Urbanism
16 blogs about Urbanism.
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BICYCLE DUTCH
All about cycling in the Netherlands.
By Mark Wagenbuur. 🇳🇱 More infoUpdated
A rare glimpse of Utrecht in 1993, a before and after There’s something about before-and-after comparisons that truly fascinates me. I love documenting changes in cities, especially when it comes to street design. Growing up in Utrecht—a city that has been in a constant state of …
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Bryan Boyer – Medium
Buildings & cities & all the things between. More at bryanboyer.com.
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What does it mean to design urban technology? We’ve recently launched a new degree program in Urban Technology at University of Michigan that combines urbanism, technology, and design. But what does design mean in this context? Like many aspects of creating a new …
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The Corner Side Yard
Yelling from the window as the world passes by.
By Pete Saunders. 🇺🇸 More infoUpdated
So Long Blogger, Hello Substack It's time. After 12 years of writing about cities with a Rust Belt perspective on this platform, I'm closing it down. And no, this is not an April Fool's joke. I'm moving on to a …
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Dan Hill – Medium
Designer, urbanist, etc. Director of Melbourne School of Design. Previously, Swedish gov, Arup, UCL IIPP, Fabrica, Helsinki Design Lab, BBC etc.
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‘Future Communities’, an exhibition at the ICA in 1981 Pages from the catalogue of the ICA’s 1981 Future Communities exhibition, with a foreword by Colin WardI’m sharing these images of Institute for Contemporary Arts Future Communities exhibition from 1981 as I suspect that it’s …
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devonzuegel.com
I’m a writer of code and words. The thing that matters most to me is unlocking human potential, so I think a lot about incentive design, tools for thought, and cities.
By Devon Zuegel. 🇺🇸 More infoUpdated
Property values should be normalized by acre In the US, it's common for local governments to focus on tax revenue produced by a property, without considering the costs it adds to the city's budget. This is like measuring how far a car …
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Granola Shotgun
By Johnny Sanphillippo. 🇺🇸 More infoUpdated ️️⚠
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Whatever Works Sometimes a story takes a number of years to ripen. And sometimes two or three stories merge in unexpected ways. I just had a moment of convergence when new infill development, sub rosa adaptation, and …
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Greater Greater Washington
Builds informed and civically engaged communities who believe in a growing and inclusive Washington region and speak up for livable communities for all.
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Making the case for good cause eviction in Maryland Maryland’s General Assembly is currently looking at a bill that would block landlords from evicting tenants without a legitimate reason. On February 18th, members of Renters United Maryland called on lawmakers to require a “good …
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Holy Mountain: A Blog about Our Common Life
Commentary on public policy, place and social relations.
By Bruce Nesmith. 🇺🇸 More infoUpdated
10th anniversary post: Jeff Speck in Cedar Rapids Jeff Speck talking about "The Safe Walk," 2015Ten years ago this month, when urbanism was still relatively "new," our local Corridor Urbanism group was all of two months old, your humble blogger was still young …
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lukebennett13
Tracing the spectacular within the humdrum of the built environment.
By Luke Bennett. 🇬🇧 More infoUpdated
Legal Geography – a Place-first approach “It is time to address the places of law and ask: How and why does place matter in legal geographical scholarship? What can be found beyond the generic legal places? And What are the unexplored …
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Places Journal
Public scholarship on architecture, landscape, and urbanism.
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Apply for the SAH | Places | Graham Foundation Prize We are now accepting applications for the 2025 SAH | Places | Graham Foundation Prize on Race and the Built Environment. Applications are due April 28, 2025. Read on Places Journal
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The Ranty Highwayman
The adventures in time & space of a Chartered Civil Engineer, specialising in designing for walking and cycling.
By Mark. 🇬🇧 More infoUpdated
Floating Bus Stops: Redux I write this with a deep sigh. Not because it's an unimportant subject, it's just that it comes up every so often and I need to remind people that floating bus stops are not the …
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RJOHNTHEBAD
A builder, developer, urban designer, and recovering electrician. His work focuses on small scale, incremental design and development.
By R John Anderson. 🇺🇸 More infoUpdated
Office Vacancy Chaos and Opportunity There is an opportunity within the chaos created when work from home and hybrid work hollowed out the Central Business District (CBD) of places like San Antonio and Portland. In San Antonio I saw a …
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Southeast Asia construction, transport, and infrastructure
Transport and urban development in Southeast Asia.
By James Clark. 🇻🇳 More infoUpdated
Da Lat–Thap Cham railway restoration The Da Lat–Thap Cham railway was an 84 km railway that connected Da Lat in the Central Highlands to Thap Cham on the main North–South railway of Vietnam. The proposed restoration would rebuild a new …
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Streets.mn
Transportation and Land Use in Minnesota.
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National Links: Multimodal Street Design Every day, The Overhead Wire collects news about cities and sends the links to their email list. At the end of the week they take some of the most popular stories and post them to …
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Strong Towns
We produce content that analyzes the failures of the post-war North American development pattern while giving citizens the knowledge and tools to start making our places better today.
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The Starter Home: A Forgotten Path to Affordable Housing To create more affordable, adaptable housing, we must rediscover the traditional starter home and remove the barriers preventing its return.A true starter home represents the smallest increment of development — affordable, flexible and built with …
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The Urbanist
Examining urban policy to improve cities and quality of life.
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Washington House Passes Mosquito Fleet Act, Queuing Potential Foot Ferry Expansion The Washington State House voted 87-8 Friday to approve a bill expanding the ability of local transit agencies to establish passenger ferry service, in the hopes of supplementing the struggling state ferry system. Now the …