This blog post was authored by Jeff Kuhnhenn, AIA, LEED AP, Director of Architectural Design, Gresham Smith. Over the past 40 years, there has been a slow but radical realignment in how designers and ...

The Un-Habitat or the United Nations agency for human settlements and sustainable urban development, whose primary focus is to deal with the challenges of rapid urbanization, has been developing ...

As a lifelong advocate for disability rights and inclusion, I’ve intimately observed how considerate urban design can forge vibrant cities where everyone belongs. While federal legislation like the ...

Housing Upcycle Program, Barrio Mugica of Buenos Aires. Image Courtesy of Special Project Unit Barrio Padre Carlos Mugica, Buenos Aires City Government UN-Habitat’s publication is divided into five ...

A large oak tree is known as “Chuck Norris” at Harwood Park on Friday, Sept. 15, 2023, in Dallas. Well-planned urban parks, like the ones here in Dallas, encourage sustainable urban design principles, ...

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 ...

The works Jože Plečnik carried in Ljubljana between World War I and World War II present an example of a human centred urban design that successively changed the identity of the city following the ...

Thirty years ago, Scene writer Christine Kreyling trained her attention on one downtown boulevard that looked, to her, like a huge mistake. City planners had proposed a massive arterial road in part ...