Topic: urban planning
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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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Photos
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.
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Charts
The Evolution of Urban Planning in 10 Diagrams
A new exhibit from the San Francisco Planning and Urban Research Association showcases the simple visualizations of complex ideas that have changed how we live.
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How to Get Kids Excited About Building Better Neighborhoods? Try Minecraft
The Swedish video game company and UN-HABITAT are teaming up to help people around the world re-envision their cities.
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Urban Wonk
A Brief History of the Birth of Urban Planning
The field first started in America as the purview of three very different types of thinkers.
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India's Trickiest Urban Planning Obstacle? Gandhi's Legacy
The stated preference of India's greatest citizen for village life may be holding his country back.
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Has South America's Most Sustainable City Lost Its Edge?
Brazil's Curitiba was once a model of sustainable planning. Now, it's struggling with a slew of urban problems.
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Democracy in America
Yes, There's an 'Urban Planning for Dummies' Book
And its author makes the case for why our cities need more dummies getting involved.
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Have Guitar, Will Sing Songs About Urban Planning
Melanie Hammet wants to turn obscure zoning ordinances into the universal language of song.
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Videos
Take a Video Tour of Istanbul's Conceptual New Taksim Square
Zoom through underground roadways and over a reconstructed Ottoman barrack in this video of the yet-to-be-built Taksim Project, a major rejiggering of Istanbul's central park.
