"Here's the story," said Alexander Garvin. "Here's a New York planning expert who doesn't think Houston is a stupid place to go, that you can learn something here." To call Garvin a "New York planning ...

Mixed Land Use Urban Planning is a modern approach to city development that blends residential, commercial, cultural, and recreational spaces into a single, well-connected environment. Instead of ...

In theory, urban planning is a process of elaborating solutions that aim both to improve or requalify an existing urban area, as well as to create a new urbanization in a given region. As a discipline ...

Finding out which are the best countries in urban planning is a tricky quest since the term “urban planning” covers many categories. The term includes many different activities that have the overall ...

The Urban and Regional Planning PhD program, designed to nurture distinguished scholars and researchers, offers research and learning opportunities encompassing the field of urban and regional ...

Today over a half of the world’s population lives within urban centers. Considering this and growing populations overall, urban planners have a difficult task ahead of them. They must plan and grow ...

Eugenie L. Birch is Lawrence C. Nussdorf Professor of Urban Research and Education at the Penn Institute for Urban Research at the University of Pennsylvania, and President of the General Assembly of ...