Blogs about Urbanism

The council of my hometown ‘s-Hertogenbosch has announced the publication of a traffic plan for its city core which the local press hailed as “historic”. The upcoming plans to redesign especially the ring of streets …

We’ve recently launched a new degree program in Urban Technology at University of Michigan that combines urbanism, technology, and design. But what does design mean in this context? Like many aspects of creating a new …

The pandemic changed office culture irrevocably. With hybrid working now fully instilled, this has impacted not only companies’ organisational structures, but their physical infrastructure as well. (Photo by Monkey Business Images/Shutterstock) Building design now needs …

It's time. After 12 years of writing about cities with a Rust Belt perspective on this platform, I'm closing it down. And no, this is not an April Fool's joke. I'm moving on to a …

Announcing Circular Design Praxis, a new movement in and around Japan concerning Asia-Pacific circular design principles and practicesContinue reading on A chair in a room »

A new city has been proposed in California, and I’ve never been more captivated by a vision for the future of my home state in my lifetime. This post is part of a series I’m …

Sometimes a story takes a number of years to ripen. And sometimes two or three stories merge in unexpected ways. I just had a moment of convergence when new infill development, sub rosa adaptation, and …

Eight regional employers – universities, non-profits, and private companies – competed this spring to see who could get the largest share of their employees riding transit. As the organizers of this first-of-its-kind competition in the …

Wednesday, May 15Jane and I are in Cincinnati for the 32nd annual Congress for the New Urbanism, after an all-day drive. We got here about 8:00, too late to register or join the Opening Night …

“…An Alchemist as once profoundly wondrous and entirely banal, water guides our bodies from young to old, from here to there, from potentiality to actuality. Translation, transformation. Plurality proliferates.” Astrida Niemanis (2012) ‘Hydrofeminism, or on …

Cardboard’s ubiquity rests on simple claims: I can hold that, and I can go there. But cardboard boxes hold a world of meaning — a global apparatus of commerce, consumption, disposal, and reuse. Read on …

Ostensibly, my trips to the Netherlands are meant to be holidays, but of course, it's impossible to switch off completely and besides, travelling is about finding out about how other people live isn't it?Over the …

There is an opportunity within the chaos created when work from home and hybrid work hollowed out the Central Business District (CBD) of places like San Antonio and Portland. In San Antonio I saw a …

Langkawi LRT is a proposed light rail transit system in Langkawi, Malaysia. A Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) was signed on 29 April 2024 between the state-owned Kedah Investment Authority (Permodalan Kedah Bhd (PKB)) and South …

Every day, The Overhead Wire collects news about cities and sends the links to their email list. At the end of the week they take some of the most popular stories and post them to …

Is there anything worse than spotting a public bathroom at the moment you need one, only to find that it’s locked? Okay, of course there are worse things than that, but it’s up there, isn’t …

In an attempt to reduce construction costs and spur housing starts, Mayor Bruce Harrell is proposing that Seattle not implement a planned update to its multifamily and commercial building energy code, originally set to take …