Chicago Tribune: David Perry, UIC professor and expert in urban planning issues, dies
CU Boulder News & Events: Beyond Green Spaces: The Challenges of Sustainable Urban Planning
Azza Kamal wears many hats — besides teaching sustainable planning and urban design in CU Boulder’s Environmental Design (ENVD) department, she is an urbanist, policy researcher, and licensed ...
Urban and regional planning is a dynamic discipline that has evolved from traditional, top‐down approaches to embrace interdisciplinary and participatory methods. It integrates spatial analysis, ...
ArchDaily: Artificial Intelligence and Urban Planning: Technology as a Tool for City Design
The convergence of artificial intelligence (AI) and urban planning holds significant promise for creating more intelligent, efficient, and sustainable cities. This fusion entails the integration of ...
Artificial Intelligence and Urban Planning: Technology as a Tool for City Design
From the grid plans of ancient Greek cities to the Renaissance's idealized urban layouts, the history of urban planning is a reflection of evolving power structures and societal priorities. Across the ...
Ibj.com: Q&A: Urban designer says city planning is overcomplicated, squeezes out creativity
Through his social media accounts and his Substack, Indianapolis-based urban designer Jeffery Tompkins’ writings and renderings on city planning have seeped out of his niche and reached a more general ...
The World Bank Group supports cities and mobilizes subnational finance to create jobs by building urban infrastructure and strengthening municipal services.
Discover how the Ethiopia Urban Institutional and Infrastructure Development Program created 1.15 million jobs with World Bank support.
How an Urban Program in Ethiopia Delivered More than a Million Jobs
This report highlights the substantial investments required to build more resilient and low-carbon cities in low- and middle-income countries. These investments are crucial to strengthen essential infrastructure, unlock new jobs, and ensure more sustainable urban development. Resilient and low ...
Extreme urban heat is becoming an urgent challenge for Bangkok, threatening lives, livelihoods, and the city’s economic resilience. The Urban Heat Island (UHI) effect exacerbates this crisis, turning built-up areas into heat traps that contribute to heat-related mortality, lost productivity, higher energy consumption, and other negative outcomes.
Shaping a Cooler Bangkok: Tackling Urban Heat for a More Livable City
The Djibouti Integrated Slum Upgrading Project, launched in 2018, aims to improve living conditions in deprived urban areas in Djibouti City and to strengthen the capacity of public institutions responsible for implementing the Zero Slum Program.
New World Bank Financing Set to Revamp Dodoma’s Urban Mobility and ...
Investments in adaptation will also save over 130,000 lives from extreme heat impacts by 2050. With over 50 percent of the urban infrastructure required for 2050 still to be built, India has a critical opportunity to drive resilient urban infrastructure development. “The imperative for India to build resilient cities at scale is clear.
Urban China: Toward Efficient, Inclusive, and Sustainable Urbanization The joint report by the World Bank and the Development Research Center of China’s State Council, Urban China: Toward Efficient, Inclusive and Sustainable Urbanization, includes six priority areas for a new model of urbanization: 1. Reforming land management and institutions Because most of the urban expansion in recent ...
WASHINGTON, – The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors has approved $400 million in financing for a new project that will provide safely managed water, sanitation and basic hygiene services, and help improve the institutional and financial performance of local urban administration in Punjab province.
Nature-based solutions like urban farming, terraces, and green corridors can help cities with climate challenges including urban heat, flooding, and air pollution. But how can governments and communities determine which nature-based solutions best meet their needs? In Kinshasa, indigenous knowledge, innovative tools, and proactive local government are helping to answer the question.
sciencex: A landscape-based approach to urban heritage management: People, spatial biography, and ecosystem
This article first identifies the current definition of urban heritage that includes both "old" and "young" monuments. Their protection has also shifted from solely preserving "old" values into a more ...
A landscape-based approach to urban heritage management: People, spatial biography, and ecosystem
David Perry headed the University of Illinois Chicago’s Great Cities Institute for 12 years and was considered an expert on issues including urban and regional economic development, race, politics 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, ...
The goal of planning is to maximize the health, safety, and economic well-being for all residents.
For more than a century, the Journal of the American Planning Association has published research, commentaries, and book reviews useful to practicing planners, scholars, students, policy makers, and others interested in the planning profession.
Planning Is About Collaboration Planning is a highly collaborative field, and planners spend much of their time working with others. A planner's day may start with a staff meeting to discuss the management of a planning project. Other meetings might include a team meeting with engineers, architects, health professionals, and landscape architects to review the specifics of a plan. Yet other ...
The 2025 American Planning Association (APA) Divisions Council Awards celebrated standout achievements, innovative programs, and impactful initiatives between October 2023 and September 2024.
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Saint Joseph's University is a private institution that was founded in 1851. In the 2026 edition of Best Colleges, Saint Joseph's University is ranked No. #6 in Regional Universities North. It's also ...
Mount Saint Mary's University is a private institution that was founded in 1925. In the 2026 edition of Best Colleges, Mount Saint Mary's University is ranked No. #28 in Regional Universities West. It ...
Saint Nicholas was a 4th-century bishop from Anatolia who, according to legend, saved the daughters of a poor man from lives of prostitution. He is the patron saint of children, sailors and merchants, as well as Greece and Russia.
St. Nicholas, one of the most popular minor saints, is now traditionally associated with the festival of Christmas. In many countries children receive gifts on December 6, St. Nicholas Day. He is one of the patron saints of children and of sailors.