Topic: urban planning
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Britain's Oddly Captivating Reality Show About Land Use
The Planners is partly bucolic escapism and partly a sidelong look at the state of Britain today. And yes, it's actually fascinating.
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If Your City Were Wrecked by Totalitarian Urban Planners
Spend a moment sitting in the shoes of Bucharest.
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Embracing the Autocatalytic City
How bottom-up growth, driven by citizens, trumps central command.
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SimCity 5's Multiplayer Blues
Why the newest edition of the city-building game has fans in revolt.
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Why India Keeps Its Cities So Short
Despite an urban development explosion, the country hasn't developed a taste for skyscrapers and tall building.
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The Limits of Urban Planning With LEGOs
What's lost when anything is possible.
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Urban Planning's Role in Making India Safer for Women
A month after a gruesome gang rape, New Delhi takes aim at the lowest-hanging fruit: Improving public spaces.
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Urban Wonk
Cities With Too Many Men
India's unbalanced sex ratio has created a slew of social problems and exacerbated violence against women.
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How France Built Inequality Into Its Cities
Planners have created isolated urban enclaves that keep the country’s immigrant population separate.
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How to Balance People and Nature on the Galapagos
There are some significant but realistic planning ideas making the rounds, with acute sensitivity to the islands’ special culture.
