Tagged “urban-planning”
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A Pattern Language
A searchable, linkable online edition of Christopher Alexander's 253 architecture and town-planning patterns, browsable…
A/B Street
A traffic simulation game where you reshape streets and intersections to untangle congestion, with editable maps of real…
American Planning Association
The professional association for urban planners, publishing research, case studies, and guidance on zoning, housing, and…
Articulated Bus Error
Occasional essays on public transit planning and the software behind measuring access, with graphs and analysis of how w…
Building Walkable Neighborhoods Is Harder Than It Should Be
An article on why even willing developers and city officials struggle to build walkable neighborhoods, as a little-known…
Downzoning Chicago
A research article by Yonah Freemark and George Kisiel on how postwar downzoning in Chicago reduced housing construction…
Fake is the new real
Artist and urban planner Neil Freeman's collection of maps and data art, including the US redrawn into 50 states of equa…
How Tokyo Developed a Culture of Transit in a World of Cars
A radio feature on how a city of 37 million relies on trains and public transit, with little congestion or pollution, an…
Melbourne 1945
An interactive map that compares present-day satellite imagery of Melbourne, Australia with aerial photographs taken in…
MetroDreamin'
A map editor for designing your dream public transit system, with an explore page of metro and rail maps from users arou…
Parkulator
Select any area on a world map and Parkulator measures how much of it is given over to car parks, then tells you how man…
Planetizen
A news and resource hub for urban planning professionals covering zoning, transportation, housing policy, and city desig…
Planning Tank
A knowledge base on urban, regional, and rural planning for students and professionals, with articles on cities, environ…
Seattle Transit Blog
An independent, award-winning publication covering transit and land use in Seattle and the Puget Sound area since 2007,…
SF Zoning Map
An interactive map that colors every parcel of San Francisco by how many homes zoning allows, revealing how much of the…
Spain Lives in Flats
An interactive scrollytelling map from El Diario traces how Spanish cities grew upward, using cadastre data to show the…
SPUR
A San Francisco Bay Area nonprofit publishing research, policy analysis, and articles on housing, transportation, and ur…
Square-Mile Street Network Visualization
A visualization of one square mile of street network in cities around the world, drawn at the same scale with OSMnx in t…
The Prophet of Parking
An affectionate eulogy for economist Donald Shoup, whose research on free parking reshaped how cities think about curb s…
Transportist
A transport and urban systems blog by University of Sydney professor David Levinson, covering networks, economics, and h…
Urban Design Group Articles
Articles from the Urban Design Group, a UK forum for architects and planners, on streets, public space and how towns and…
Why Your City's Street Grid Matters More Than You Think
An essay on the hidden impact street connectivity has on transportation, housing and how easily people can get around a…
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