In 2026, we mark 100 years since the Supreme Court upheld zoning laws, shaping urban development and segregation. Key cases include Euclid, which enabled exclusionary single-family zoning, and ...

Housing, planning, and equity must be at the heart of urban transformation, writes the executive director of UN-Habitat.

A planned urban development (PUD) combines residential, commercial, and open spaces in one project. Learn about its structure, benefits, and drawbacks.

Marissa Haugh has built her career on a clear conviction: affordable housing policy is meaningless if it fails in practice.

Urban resilience and sustainability (URS) is a new kind of professional practice that incorporates the principles of sustainable development. It emerged as a distinct field about 15 years ago, circa ...

Urban environments are in a constant process of social evolution, political and economic transformation. Attached to the idea of urban renewal is gentrification, a complex phenomenon circumscribing a ...

Miami-Dade County’s Urban Development Boundary (UDB) is more than a planning tool, it is a promise to protect our drinking ...

Barbara Norman is Emeritus Professor at the University of Canberra and has received funding from the Australian Research Council, the Australian and ACT Governments and the Bushfire and Natural ...

Do you marvel at how places work and want to make them better? Urban and Regional Planning majors use the power of geographical thinking to analyze urban problems and design creative solutions.

The park ends with a broad staircase leading into the sea next to the Fishermen's House. Image Courtesy of BOGL BOGL, a Danish landscape architecture studio, won the open planning and design ...