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Halloween may be the most "urbanist" holiday -- it makes everyone be a pedestrian and talk to their neighbors. But how can your neighborhood be a better trick-or-treat destination? And how can that ma...

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Mt. Laurel Township in New Jersey didn't want to allow affordable housing. Black residents took them to court and the result is one of the most progressive state housing policies anywhere in the U.S.

Atherton, a town known for single-family homes on spacious lots, could soon see a 30-unit townhome development. A Cupertino-based developer submitted a preliminary application that takes advantage of ...

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We are used to the usual street in front of our houses: wide, parking, driveways, maybe sidewalks. But is there an optimal design? One that improves safety and makes it nicer to live along?

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A new wave of state legislation is fundamentally reshaping American planning by reducing local authority over land use, zoning, and environmental review, particularly for artificial intelligence (A...

Tech companies are building hundreds of massive data centers in communities around the US. Planners have to grapple with the impacts (power, water, noise) those data centers cause. How do they do it? ...

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Some cities are incredibly dense, filled with towering skyscrapers. Others are spread out, filled with single family homes. Which is better? Is there a best density? Spoiler: it has something to do wi...

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U.S. architect Frank Lloyd Wright proposed Broadacre City in the 1930s. It was a vision for a decentralized, low-density city that presaged the exurbs, or the most rural of the suburbs. What did Broad...

New York, Boston, Chicago, and Philadelphia built their metro systems over 100 years ago, and since then there hasn't been a big boom in metro construction. Big cities like Houston, Dallas, and Phoeni...