urban planning

Essays

On a Road to Nowhere? Military Urbanism and the Architecture of Segregation

Tim Cunningham - 3 May 2024

Comparing the experiences of Belfast, Northern Ireland, with the United States, Tim Cunningham shows how physical...

From the Field

Working-Class Ecology Versus Olympic Urbanism

Flaminia Paddeu & translated by Oliver Waine - 19 April 2024

In Aubervilliers, north of Paris, swathes of a community garden—the Jardins Ouvriers des Vertus—have been destroyed...

From the Field

Fifteen-Minute Prisons? A Reflection on the Far-Right Backlash Against Sustainable Development in Britain

Garrett L. Grainger - 4 October 2023

In an era of increasing political polarization, right-wing activists are targeting sustainable planning...

Essays

The Emergence of Ecological Thinking in the City

Charles-François Mathis & translated by Oliver Waine - 27 September 2022

What place does ecological thinking have in the field of urban planning? In describing the use of vegetation in...

Debates

The Second Coming of the Accessory Dwelling Unit

Joseph Weil Huennekens - 26 October 2021

Joseph Weil Huennekens discusses the history of accessory dwelling units (ADUs) in the context of housing in the...

Series

Cities in the Age of Financialization

Martine Drozdz & Antoine Guironnet & Ludovic Halbert & translated by James Christopher Mizes & Oliver Waine - 18 June 2021

Over the past four decades, the financialization of capitalism has transformed economies, societies, and urban...

From the Field

The Brazilian Experience of Financialization Through Urban Redevelopment: The Case of “Urban Operations”

Laisa Eleonora Marostica Stroher - 1 December 2020

Laisa Stroher examines the history of large-scale urban regeneration projects in Brazil and shows how a policy...

Reviews

Institutional Readings on Zoning

Jamaal Green - 20 November 2020

A new edited volume on zoning approaches the subject as a tool of planning, part of a network of institutions and...

Essays

The Right to the City: An Emancipating Concept?

Matthias Lecoq & translated by Oliver Waine - 3 July 2020

The radical approach formulated by Henri Lefebvre in 1968 criticized the failure to include inhabitants in the...

From the Field

Right(s) to the City in Hanoi

Divya Leducq & translated by Oliver Waine - 11 October 2019

Over the past decade, urban change has accelerated and transformed the physical, social and symbolic landscapes of...

Debates

Reclaim Value Capture for Equitable Urban Development

Laura Wolf-Powers - 28 May 2019

Land-value capture (LVC) mechanisms have become a popular tool for fiscally constrained municipal policymakers....

Reviews

Planning Metropolitan Australia

Margot Abord de Chatillon - 9 April 2019

In Planning Metropolitan Australia, Stephen Hamnett and Robert Freestone shed welcome light on the way Australia’s...

Essays

As NYC (Again) Considers Comprehensive Planning, History Offers Insight

K. C. Alvey - 12 February 2019

Comprehensive planning can be a progressive governance tool, helping leaders keep broad principles like equity and...

Reviews

Recyclable City or Disposable City? A Century of Urban Waste in Naples

Sabine Bognon & translated by Oliver Waine - 9 November 2018

Inspired by the study of living ecosystems, research into the notion of urban metabolism seeks to break with the...

Essays

Getting Night Lighting Right

Samuel Challéat & Dany Lapostolle & translated by Oliver Waine - 2 November 2018

Innovation in contemporary urban lighting has increasingly been driven by issues of sustainability. While...

Debates

Deafening Discord: Reclaiming Residents’ Anger in Working-Class Neighborhoods

Pierre Chabard & translated by Oliver Waine - 26 October 2018

We recently published an article showing how, in Roubaix in northern France, elected officials took steps to...

From the Field

The Territorial and Environmental Impacts of Climate Change in Germany

Dennis Becker & Stefan Greiving & Viola Schulze Dieckhoff & Thorsten Wiechmann - 25 April 2018

In Germany, the territorial and environmental impacts of climate change intersect in key ways with the nation’s...

From the Field

Overcoming Climate Impacts Through Adaptive Capacity Building: Two Extreme Cases from Germany

Viola Schulze Dieckhoff & Thorsten Wiechmann - 25 April 2018

Climate change and demographic change interact. Impacts of climate change do not solely result from climate...

From the Field

Climate and Demographic Change: The Need for an Integrative Approach to Spatial Planning in Germany

Dennis Becker & Stefan Greiving - 25 April 2018

Climate change and demographic change are two megatrends that are often discussed without regard for their complex...

From the Field

Urban Desires and Lust for Land

Éric Denis & translated by Oliver Waine - 20 April 2018

In the Global South, vast swathes of periurban and agricultural land are being sold off and converted into...

Debates

The Cost of Good Intentions: Planning Gridlock in San Francisco

David Prowler - 30 January 2018

The culture of protest that marked development and planning in San Francisco during the 1970s and 1980s was a...

Debates

Streetcars Named Desire

Luc Gwiazdzinski & translated by Oliver Waine - 15 March 2016

Luc Gwiazdzinski provides an original and critical analysis of the changes affecting today’s cities and contemporary...

Essays

The “Dozois Plan”: lessons learned from urban-renewal policies and the history of urban planning in Montreal

Frédéric Mercure-Jolette & translated by Oliver Waine - 23 October 2015

Urban-renewal policies justify their actions by decrying neighbourhoods earmarked for demolition. Frédéric...

Reviews

Jerusalem: divisive urban planning at the heart of the Holy City

Vincent Lemire & translated by Oliver Waine - 19 June 2015

How is the Israeli–Palestinian conflict reflected in the way the city of Jerusalem has been planned and developed?...

From the Field

Vancouverism: hybridisation and spread of an urban model

Nicolas Douay & translated by Oliver Waine - 12 June 2015

The transformation that downtown Vancouver has undergone – which has since become a reference, known as...

From the Field

Exporting French-style “sustainable cities” to Morocco

Pierre-Arnaud Barthel & translated by Oliver Waine - 1 May 2015

In Morocco, environmental urban projects are the order of the day. For these projects, French expertise is being...

Essays

Programming play into public space?

Sonia Curnier & translated by Oliver Waine - 20 March 2015

With the rise of the “ludic city”, the work of Roger Caillois and Marc Breviglieri allows us to question the...

From the Field

The Massive Death of China’s Urban Villages

Stefan Al - 17 March 2015

As expanding Chinese cities engulfed their hinterlands, chengzhoncun—villages within the city—became an affordable...

Essays

Starchitects: walking the line between individuality and conformity

Géraldine Molina & translated by Oliver Waine - 19 February 2015

The stars of the worlds of architecture and urban planning are prime targets of research, with the aim of...

Essays

Is there a model for sustainable urban planning?

Claire Carriou & Olivier Ratouis & translated by Oliver Waine - 27 November 2014

Claire Carriou and Olivier Ratouis reconsider the theoretical sources of sustainable urban planning from the...

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