The urban design category of Fast Company’s World Changing Ideas Awards honors landscapes, urban designs, and policies that make cities and living in them cleaner, more efficient, more beautiful, and ...

Security has been an integral part of metropolitan areas for millennia. From the ancient walls that surrounded Marrakesh and Munich to the barriers erected during “the Troubles” in Northern Ireland, ...

The Guide to Creating Urban Public SPACES for Children provides practical, evidence-based guidance to help cities redesign streets, parks and public places so they are safer, more inclusive and more ...

Pictured is an artist’s rendering of what a redesigned streetscape in the city’s medical corridor could look like. The Jamestown Urban Design Plan 2.0 includes a major focus on the health and wellness ...

S1: This is KPBS Midday Edition. I'm Andrew Bracken in for Jade Hindman. Ahead , we hear a conversation about the power of design to shape our lives and communities , from housing to transportation , ...

Of the 121,603 licensed architects in the United States, only 2,492 (2%) are Black. But that doesn’t mean they’re not making a huge impact on urban design. Black architects have been innovators in the ...

Much of the world lives in urban settings, with North America housing 82% of its population in cities. But while cities can be attractive places to live, providing work and recreational opportunities ...

Generative urban AI platforms can move from vision into reality in seconds with dozens, if not hundreds, of iterations and scenarios to choose from. Cities, the pulsating hubs of human civilization, ...

Densification takes different forms; as every city or site is unique, it requires a tailored approach. At the same time, we need to maximize the scarce land that’s available in our existing cities to ...

As the global population continues to surge, cities become increasingly complex ecosystems, dense and bustling environments home to millions of people. Today, more than half of the world's population ...