About three years ago, the sociologist Richard Sennett asked his friend and colleague Joan Clos, the executive director of the United Nations Human Settlements Program, if he had ever read the Athens ...

Navigating Vancouver's streets on foot can feel somewhat perilous. Cars, cyclists and e-scooters come at you from all ...

This blog post was authored by Jeff Kuhnhenn, AIA, LEED AP, Director of Architectural Design, Gresham Smith. Over the past 40 years, there has been a slow but radical realignment in how designers and ...

Generative urban AI platforms can move from vision into reality in seconds with dozens, if not hundreds, of iterations and scenarios to choose from. Cities, the pulsating hubs of human civilization, ...

Once we can have our old lives back we will likely return to familiar routines and our memories of lockdown and isolation will start to fade. While our lack of memory is arguably a resiliency resource ...

From autonomous vehicles to algorithmic design, the new forces shaping urban design are poised to forever change our cities and suburbs. Algorithms shape everything from medicine and media to ...

Road diets reorganize street space by narrowing and/or reducing regular car lanes to add protected bike lanes without major reconstruction. This stunning new bridge in Helsinki is designed for ...

"The works presented here showcase examples of student projects from three courses within the Master of Urban Design and Digital Environments (MUDDE) program. "Three projects were selected from the ...

The Master of Urban Design (MUD) programme at the University of Toronto's Daniels Faculty foregrounds equity in the built environment, exploring practice-based design knowledge as a medium for ...