Welcome to the Archives of Urban Planning Blog. All the posts on this blog are listed below by the month and the year they were published in:
- 2012: Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
- 2011: Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
- 2010: Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
- 2009: Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
- 2008: Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
- 2007: Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
- 2006: Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
- 2005: Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
February 2012
January 2012
- Why Portland's Public Toilets Succeeded Where Others Failed
- Sustainable
- Nearly Transparent Store Planned For France
- When Dharavi grows up, it does not want to be Shanghai
- Is Your City Smart Enough?
- Revealing Economic Terrorists: A Slumlord Conspiracy
- Between the Lines
- Screwing Over Urban America
- Infrastructure in India: Infrastruggles
- Buffalo, Then and Now (1902-2011)
- Under pressure: raising Venice above water (using... water?)
- A Fair Auto Fare
- Evolution of New York City Subway
- The Bold Urban Future Starts Now
December 2011
- Just another State Senator
- Urban Planning Books as Gifts
- The Transportation Planning Rule Every City Should Reform
- Hip Cities That Think About How They Work
- Ice Cube Architecture
November 2011
- What makes Shivaji Park more accessible than Oval Maidan
- Middle-Class Areas Shrink as Income Gap Grows
- The Pedestrian Loses the Way
- Sustainable Living Architecture in Action
- How Blind People Cross the Street
October 2011
- A 53% Surge in Poverty Rate Is Reshaping Suburbs
- Frank Lloyd Wright Did Care
- Touring Central Park
- IBM Global Parking Survey: Drivers Share Worldwide Parking Woes
September 2011
- Green neighborhood in Milwaukee
- Rod Garrett, the Urban Planner Behind ‘Burning Man’
- A clean, well-lighted place
August 2011
- Urban Spaces and Innovation
- Norman Foster and Steve Jobs
- Density is Natural
- Final Parcels Developed in Battery Park City
- If the world lived in a single city...
- How Riots Start, and How They Can Be Stopped
- Mapping the 2010 U.S. Census
- The Earthscraper
July 2011
- Smart Cities Conferences
- New York - Empire of Evolution
- Apple Store in Grand Central Terminal
- It's Biology: All Cities are Alike
- Research Choice
- Fresh Thrust to Urbanization
- Trade your car for a lifetime transit pass?
- How the Great Reset Has Already Changed America
- Budget Cuts Close Pools Across the Country
- Ending Poverty via Urban Planning
- Public art rubs Seoul the wrong way
- Pedestrian and Bicycle Infrastructure: A National Study of Employment Impacts
- Open Source Architecture (OSArc)
June 2011
- City Double
- The great $10 apartment sale
- India Invents a City
- In Gurgaon, India, Dynamism Meets Dysfunction
- 3-Way Street
- Mapnificent
May 2011
- Ten design lessons from Frederick Law Olmsted
- 72 Hour Challenge
- Pushback Against Urban Renewal
- Is Another Housing Crash Coming?
- Liveable vs Lovable
- The actual plans for Bin Laden’s “pucca” house
- The World’s Largest Wooden Structure
- CNU 19 in Madison, Wisconsin
- 50 Ideas for Improving Cities
- At Ground Zero, a memorial emerges.
- Resenting Students and Their Windows
April 2011
- Mexico’s census: TVs outnumber fridges
- Solar Eyesores?
- How should India urbanise?
- A Brief History of Moving Buildings
- Malls Across America
- India's Urban Slum Population
- Water Towers of Ireland
- Living in the shadow of the Hollywood sign
- The 5 Best Rooftop Gardens in New York
- If You Sell Your House, Will You Get A Good Price?
- 5 Green Cities of the Future
- Art and Spaces
- The story of our rooms
- Mile high Kingdom Tower?
- The Value of Urban Clustering
- Postcards from Google Earth
- Spraying to Make Yards Green
- Are U.S. Cities Like Detroit Really Dying?
- Urban Planning Blog on Twitter
- OpenStreetBlock
- Who Bikes?
March 2011
- Map of How Manhattan’s Grid Grew
- Skype’s Modern Palo Alto Office
- The Suburbanization of Mike Tyson
- Gloom over Mexico's booming metropolis
- Japan’s Strict Building Codes Saved Lives
- Woodward Avenue Detroit Light Rail Alternatives
- Post-Earthquake Toilets
- Destitution North of the Border - Alex Hannaford - National - The Atlantic
- Drawing all buildings in New York
- Rights to Development
- California Superfund First to Use 100% Solar Energy in Groundwater Cleanup
February 2011
- The Year Autodesk Almost Died
- MIT150 - Massachusetts Institute of Technology 150th anniversary
- The World: Now and then
- Location is Everything
- How High Can We Go?
- How Skyscrapers Can Save the City
- Ezra Stoller at Yossi Milo Gallery
- Design Lessons From India's Poorest Neighborhoods
January 2011
- Central Park Nature
- House Inside A House
- Rent vs. Buy Index
- Michael Wolf and the Architecture of Density
- Lower interest deduction better for deficit?
- Bike Lanes Create Twice as Many Jobs as Road Repair Work
- Architect's Dream Clients
- No McMansions for Millennials
- Four visions of city life in 2040
- No Left Turn: ‘Superstreet’ Traffic Design Improves Travel Time, Safety
- Holographic Street Models
- Buildings That Tweet
- The Pruitt-Igoe Myth
- Food Deserts
- Design for Networked Cities and Citizens
December 2010
- Turning the page at Robarts Library
- Tiny Dioramas of an Abandoned World
- Mall to a Mixed-Use Walkable Neighborhood
- Animated Buildings
- Epitome of Density
- Hatching a cheap way to live in Beijing
- Israeli Builders Love Iranian Marble
- BiniShells
- Norman Foster to design Apple’s new campus called ‘Apple City’
- The Fall of Niagara Falls
- Bees in Brooklyn Hives Mysteriously Turn Red
- Zoning for Chickens
- Why Big Cities Matter More than Ever
- Enthusiasm
- I Wish This Was
November 2010
- Corner Mod Office
- Sands of Traffic Time
- Social Life of Small Urban Spaces
- Home Buying Gets Tougher as Lenders Restrict FHA Loans
- Rolling Out Roads Like Carpet
- Seeing Around
October 2010
- A Net Zero House
- Bhopal 2011
- The Decline Of The West And The Arc De Triomphe
- The Landgrab Project
- Why Misleading Mobility Measures Are Making Things Worse
- IBM's CityOne
- Human landscapes in SW Florida
September 2010
- Are You Here?
- Dancing Your PhD Thesis
- Small Towns with Big Things
- Redefining Home in a Depressed Market
- Photo Essay: Taxis and Rickshaws of Bombay
- Biking in New York City
- The Wilderness Downtown
August 2010
- Tracking the Incoming Sprawl
- India in Dire Need of Civil Engineers
- Making HafenCity Feel Neighborly
- Building Megacities to Solve Problems of a Megacity
- The YIMBYS
- Arcade Fire on Suburban Sprawl
- Augmented City 3D
- The Longest Traffic Jam in History
- City Branding
- LEGO® Architecture
- The World Trade Center – based on Islamic Architecture?
- Death of the ‘McMansion’?
- Arguing for High-Speed Rail Subsidies
- Brazil’s Green World Cup?
- Visualizing Policy, Density, and Population Distribution
- Top 20 Urban Planning Successes of All Time
- Residents Who Live Near Public Transportation Live Healthier, Longer Lives
- New York City gets its own architecture tour
- Why Times Square is the way it is
- San Franscisco Transbay Transit Center and Tower
- Calculate your Transportation Cost
- Social Bicycles
- Gardening a Vacant Lot
- Rethinking home ownership
- World's Longest Yard Sale in U.S.
- Home for Life
- “Straddling” bus–a cheaper, greener and faster public transit
- There is an app for that
- The Ghosts of World War II's Past
July 2010
- Santiago Calatrava designs Denver International Airport's New Rail Station and Hotel
- High Design
- The Inception Architecture Review
- When the Levee Breaks from Bleak Design
- Film Fest 2010
- Urbanized - Investigation of Urban Design
- An unemployment problem with an easy solution
- Why Biking Is Good For Your Legs
- Defending the 30-Year Fixed-Rate Mortgage
- The Most Dangerous Road in Georgia
- Doubling Down on Housing
- Between Shadow and Light
- Don't Build your Home, Grow it
- How The Disabilities Act Has Influenced Architecture
- Sugarbowl
- Bars with Views
- Turn a Payphone Into A Library
- Tokyo Time-Lapse
- Austin F1 track location revealed
- The Happiness of Unhappy Hipsters
- (The Same) Travelers Behaving Badly
- High-speed railroading
- Rural America in the 2000s
- Almost invisible mirrored tree house built in Sweden
March 2010
February 2010
January 2010
December 2009
November 2009
October 2009
September 2009
August 2009
July 2009
June 2009
- Females who rent weigh less: Survey
- False alarm calls increase with foreclosed homes
- Bulldozing U.S. cities?
- Your Odds Of Defaulting
- Urban Planning Conferences
- Social Outcomes and Height of the Building
May 2009
April 2009
- Solutions for Working Families
- Local Action Blog
- George Kovacs Lighting Design
- Effect of your Neighboring Homes
March 2009
- What can Humans Learn from Ants
- Best of Architecture on Flickr
- Biggest Little Cities
- Next American City Vanguard Conference
- Low-Income (Potential) Homeowners still neglected
- Little Love Lost for Suburbia
- Non-Existent Foreclosure Crisis?
February 2009
- Crisis of Credit
- Smart Community Design Visualization
- Therapeautic Indoor Plants
- Los Angeles Facts and Fiction
January 2009
- Transportation Secretary - Disappointing Choice?
- Century of the City
- Public Transit Layer on Google Maps
- Earth, Observed
- Offering Financial Incentives to Faculty for Teaching Better
- Open-Plan Offices Harmful?
- Lighting and City Character
- Paying for Free Roads
- Environmental Contamination at Kingston, TN
- Leaner nations bike, walk, use mass transit?
- Why and Where do People Move
- Planning for the Classes
December 2008
November 2008
October 2008
September 2008
- Reinventing College Towns
- Time Spent Sitting in Traffic
- The city is not a problem. It is a solution.
August 2008
July 2008
- Food Zoning
- Disaster Preparedness and Voter Response
- Population Density Range in America
- Racist City in America
- Le Corbusier's Ronchamp Chapel Controversy
June 2008
- Urban Villages
- Measuring and Assigning Crime Rate
- Boarding a train that doesn't stop
- Zillow is hiring
- Sectional Building
- Homes Built for Scenic Views
- Last Call for Bohemia
- Significant Web Presence through Open Access
- Creating Democratic Cities
- Special Architecture Issue of NY Times Mag
- Economics of Sawdust
- Driving Habits and Oil Price
- Buckminister Fuller's Dymaxion House
- Evidence-Based Approach to Planning Using Technology
- Geeky Home Decor
- Ruins of Detroit
May 2008
- Rent or Buy?
- The Evolution of the New York Subway Map
- Punk Houses
- Homes 2500 years ago
- Pod Structures of San-Zhr
- Most and Least Affordable Housing Markets
- Abandoned Offices
- Bottom-Up Growth in New Orleans
- In Favor of Charter Schools?
- Skyscrapers in Moscow
- Living Near the Coast Down Under
- Suicides from Bridges
April 2008
- Terrible Bike Lanes
- Hurting the Informal Sector
- No Zoning for Cities?
- Lost Cities of the Future
- IKEA redecorates local train
- University Architectural Styles
- Vertical Urbanscape
March 2008
- Jean Nouvel Architecture Gallery
- Hitler's Berlin
- Kid Friendly Suburbs
- Redesigning the Eiffel Tower
- Ten Beautiful Bridges
- Floating Villa in Sweden
- Dubai's Next Island
- Solar and Wind Leaf Photovoltaic Shingles
- The World's Dirtiest Cities
- Using Blight for Style
- The Ultimate Future City Plan
February 2008
- Suburban Slums
- The Mumbai Parking Project
- World's Most Expensive Apartment?
- Color of the Empire State Building
- No Housing Bubble?
- Space Settlements
- Science on Urbanization
January 2008
- Providing Affordable Housing in Mumbai
- Anti Smog Architecture
- World's Largest Swimming Pool
- Mechanisms of the Market
- Back from the Dead
December 2007
November 2007
- Effect of Television
- Move Out and Join Up
- Brazos Valley Worldfest 2007
- Traffic Lights for Bikes
- Top 101 Cities, Counties, and Zip Codes List
- Is the U.S. prepared for disaster?
- When M.I.T. sues Frank Gehry
- Leaning Tower of Pisa Knocked off
October 2007
- Unique Restrooms
- Destroyed by its own beauty
- Mukesh Ambani's Antilia Residence
- Zero Emission Tower in Dubai
- The Green Collar
- A Toilet-shaped House
- A Manhattan Wal-Mart
- The bed that fits in a bookcase
- Questia Online Library
- Crickets chirping in your city blocks
- World's Thinnest Houses
- The Greenest Building in the World?
September 2007
- Most Research Findings are False?
- Ugliest buildings in the world
- Planned Parenthood and NIMBYism
- Environmental Damage after Ganesh Chaturthi
- Portable Architecture
- Playground Fence
- Check Cashing Places and Liquor Stores
- Using light to control crime
- Falling Water Movie
- The tallest free-standing structure
- Oil Producers and Consumers
- World's Worst Polluted Places
- Martha Stewart Homes
- Oakland Crimespotting
- A personal mobile library
- Are you wasting energy?
- The changing Tokyo skyline
- The Upside Down House
- Ikea Hackers
- Sell your home double quick
- Small Houses
August 2007
- Beauty of Ghost Towns
- Way to Sprawl
- 10,000 miles to the gallon
- Skyline
- Reaching Beyond
- Floating Homes
- Fat Zip Codes
- College Station - One of America's poorest cities?
- Analysis of Value
- The City of Skyscrapers
- Greenbelt causes sprawl
- Hiding an Airplane Factory
- Michael Cook's Urban Explorations
- Geography Lesson
- Biking to Work
- Does Property Insurance Affect Disaster Mitigation?
- All the world's a stage...
- Make the sun set at will
- Tilt Shift Lens Photography
- Park Avenue Before and After Cars
- Liveable Cities
- Living in a water tower
- Parking Dependent Neighborhoods
- The Disconnect Between Wages and Home Prices
- Green Roofs
- Costs of going green
- Designers wanted to create a green 21st century city
- Ten Masterpieces of Chicago Modern Architecture
- Chanel Contemporary Art Pavilion
- Texas A&M ranked No.1?
- Mumbai's Popular Waterfront Locations
- A Door Handle
- Why fuel so expensive?
- Log a Forest Leave a Tree
- And you think you're cramped?
- Rejuvenating Urban India
- Spitzer is a Congestion Pricing Convert
- Buy Low, Divorce High
- Saving New Orleans or bailing out?
- Suburbanization of New York
- Mapping Weed in San Francisco
- NIMBYness reaches Downtown
- Pie Town Dugout circa 1940
- Wired Living Home
- Plannersphere
- Living on the fringes
- Intersection Repair
- Big cities favorable to women
- Ordinary Jungle
- Design Trust for Public Space
- Tate Modern - Global Cities
- Map reveals ancient urban sprawl
- A Guide to Creating a Minimalist Home
- Are you Hispanic enough?
- Al Sharq Office Complex, Kuwait
- Place so secluded...
- Beijing's Urban Planning Museum
- Lego Blocks?
- Underwater Settlement discovered
- Not another new look
- Love your Neighborhood. Not.
- Windows too many?
- Burbia
- Buildings of the Future
- Homicide Mapping
- If Microsoft built homes
- Stone Flowers
- Seven Towers in Kazakhstan
- Shanely Building - Before and After
- Shopping on Rails
- Space Hotel to open in 2012
- Impact on our Environment
- The other side of urbanization
- Interior Design Competition
- ASCE Infrastructre Report Card
- Street Names and Home Value
- Danger of Plastic Bags
- Vote for Gateway National Recreation Area Design finalists
- More Trade Schemes than Countries?
- The Greatest Parking Meter Your City Will Never Install
- The Mismatch Dilemma of Training Planners
- Transbay Terminal San Francisco
- Redfin - online tool to buy a home
- Condo Soul-ed
- Tokyo Flood Control System
- Fingerprint Art
- Design for Sustainability
- Ugly Buildings
- Gripes against Errant Homebuilders
- America's Next Hot Neighborhoods
- The Frugality Cheat Sheet
- Floorplanner
- Camouflaged Billboards
- Street Gangs Research - Interview with Sudhir Venkatesh
- Minami-Nagano Dental Clinic and Residence Pictures
- Design for Phare Tower
- Camouflaged Home
- Social Explorer Tool for Data
- Beautiful Mobile
- New Age Census Map
- Data Visualization Methods
- Google using 'crowdsourcing' for building maps
- Blog Redesign
- Building a Vacant Properties Resource
- Demolition from Ground Up
- Earning on an Urban Planning Blog
July 2007
- Urban Typography
- Gated Communities - now available in India
- Measure your Neighborhood Walkability
- Green is the new Black
- Last Harvest - A Review
- Crazy Cantilevers
June 2007
- Dishing Out Urban Art
- China's Manufacturing Cities
- Dubai - advertising the property market
- Soundproofing your Apartment
- Moving Houses
- Permit for a dam on your property
- Urban Landscaping
- Feed the Meter
- Resolving Poverty
- Google's Streetview sparks off privacy concerns
- Storage Under the Stairs
- Mumbai Monsoons
May 2007
- New York gets new street furniture
- BLDGBLOG Book
- Orienting your office space
- Effect of Homework on Property Prices
- Tag Search
- Tag Cloud
- The Dilemma of Gentrification
March 2007
- Urban Planning Lectures Podcasts
- Standards for Scientific Knowledge: Logical Empiricism
- Moving the search burden from Renters to Landlords
February 2007
- Automated Homefinder - Review
- Mumbai's Parking Woes
- Starry Nights Lights - Review
- Translate your online content in nine languages
January 2007
- Commuter Train to Galveston
- Fight for Urban Space
- Gazprom City Designs
- Renting Solar Panels
- State of the World - 3.5 billion urbanites by 2010
December 2006
November 2006
October 2006
- Architecture and Security
- 4th Annual OHNY Weekend
- A Hotel with 30 different rooms
- Black Incomes Surpass Whites in Queens
September 2006
- Integrating Hazard Mitigation and Local Land Use Planning
- Tangram Bookcases
- Governing Land Use in Hazardous Areas with a Patchwork System
- High-Tech Homes
- Rem Koolhaas and Cornell University
- Theory vs. Practice
- Conflux: Experience of a Place
- National Park Service Map Symbols & Patterns
- The Lord of the Rings Subdivision
- Quirky Seattle Homes
- Disaster Mitigation & Sustainability
- Falling Water Animated Walkthrough
August 2006
- The wonder of Google Earth
- Green Car
- Beautiful Subways of the World
- An Adult Treehouse
- The Mill City Museum
- Find Your Spot
- Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century
- The Art of Doing Nothing
- Feedback before Experience
- Subways of the World
- World's Priciest Cities
- Build Your Own College Town
- Space Hotel
- Search for an Apartment with Maps
- Neighborhood Video Tours
- Unintended Consequences of Governmental Action
- 'Green' Nursing School
- Derelict London Cinemas
- Delhi roads are a death trap
- Accept Suburbia?
- Panoramic Guggenheim
- Do Rent-to-Own Stores prey on the poor?
- 747 House
- After all, we all are just monkeys
- Vegas is the new Florida
- Summer research
- Green WiFi
- The Big Dig House
- Disaster Recovery & Redevelopment Symposium
July 2006
- Biodegradable Products
- Urban Neighborhood Narration
- Unemploy Immigrants?
- 'Portfolio Diversification in Income'
- Arborsculpture: Making Chairs in Trees
- Grad School Gear
- Green Buildings: Now Mainstream
- 'The Top 10 Things They Never Taught Me in Design School'
- Spam Architecture
- A Shiny New Dome
- No Floating Text
- Flyovers: A Silver Bullet?
- Beautiful Abandoned Buildings
- Green Building
- Googleplex
- Barcode Designs
- Signs of Suburbia
June 2006
- LED Architecture
- No More Beachfront Property?
- OPOLIS: A Comix Fluxture
- Too Ambitious
- America's Most Sustainable Cities
- Misplaced Love for the Suburbs
May 2006
- Get Lost in Houston
- Puzzle Floor
- Stay-at-Home Communities
- Jane Jacobs - Robert Moses Conundrum
- Imagine Better Cities
- PARK(ing) in Downtown
- 75 years of Empire State Building
April 2006
- Compact Living
- Jane Jacobs Obit
- Interlocking Compact Apartment
- Resurgence of Libraries
- Reclaimed Fuselages Library
- Jane Jacobs, R.I.P
- Top Green Buildings
- Waiting for the big one?
- Unique homes – do you want them?
March 2006
- Flyovers v. Important Citizen
- Cyclists and Pedestrians – Vanish now!
- New Orleans: The town that never should have been
- Affordable Housing in Mumbai
February 2006
- Need More Traffic Management
- Blonde Curtains
- Disney Architecture
- Futility of Controlling Nature
- Traffic Shock
January 2006
- Inflatable Concrete
- Merging Wal-Marts into Indian Cities
- Best Buildings of the World
- Talk with Architect
- Night Light
- Sketchup Software
- Evolution of Palm Beach Marg
December 2005
- Best New Environmentally Friendly Developments
- Architecture Books
- External Wood Cladding on Skyscraper
- Aerial Photography
- Census Map
- Photo Essay - New York Evolution
- Against Biking
- Principles of Urban Structures
- Walk to Office
- Pedestrian-only Street in NYC?
- Urban Economics Design
- Building causing earthquakes?
- Preserving Technology Birthplaces
- Controlled Unplanned Implosions
- Mankind's Worst Invention
- No Cyclotrons at home please
- Urban Blogging Awards
- Letter Bookshelves
- Jam for Habitat
November 2005
- Changing ACs
- Controlled Implosions
- Expanding and Contracting Cities
- A4 Sculpture
- Because It is Fun to Destroy
- New Orleans Rebuilding
- Modern Architecture: Photoblog
- Chili Powder Protest
- Links
- Correa at MIT
- WAL-MART: The High Cost of Low Price
- Cool Water
- A New Urbanist Response
- A New Start
- Daniel Libeskind Interview
- Gated Communities Ain’t Safer
- Unbuilt Promises
- Prefab Tree Houses
October 2005
- Neighborhood vs. Buildings
- High Museum Extension Conversation
- Dense markets - sitting ducks for terrorists
- Don’t Leave Your Home Vacant in England
- Get Squatters off
- Mori and Ando scar Ometesando
- False Facades
- Death of the Suburbs?
- Cars, Parks, and Car Parks
- 200 Acres of Open Space for Mumbai
- Revitalizing Mumbai – The Mill Land issue
- No More than Two
- Mixed Development