Blogs about Urbanism

What I love most is documenting change, especially when it comes to cycle routes in the Netherlands, which are constantly evolving. I have filmed the cycling route from a developing new housing area in the …

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 …

Corporate building owners are opting for redesigns as they grapple with flexible working patterns and new environmental regulations.

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 …

A new online journal from the UK’s ‘Future Observatory’, the national design research programme for the green transitionYou don’t really expect the UK to produce something like Future Observatory, at this point—but it has, and …

In the US, it's common for local governments to focus on tax revenue produced by a property, without considering the costs it adds to the city's budget. This is like measuring how far a car …

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 …

I’ll tell you straight: Folks submitted some unwaveringly great photos this week. Take a beeline down the page and savor these favorites from the Greater and Lesser Washington Flickr pool! Head on with Eastern Market …

As I walk and ride on our city's streets, I seem to be encountering more aggression this summer than usual. In these fraught times, there is ample fodder for speculation on whether and why. However, …

“Claiming personhood for non-persons is, accordingly, more than probing and stretching the boundaries of traditional legal categories. It is a continuation of the disruption of the marginalising fictions of law itself. The question is, if …

A seasonal offering of brief reviews of recent books on architecture, landscape, cities, and related subjects. Read on Places Journal

When I visit the Netherlands, one of the things I enjoy doing is cycling between towns and cities because it is a great way to experience just how the cycle network operates separately to 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 …

Development of train-based mass transportation in Bali (Bali Urban Rail and Associated Facilities). DENPASAR – The development of train-based mass transportation in Bali (Bali Urban Rail and Associated Facilities) or better known as Subway/LRT (Light …

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 …

One of the backyard cottage options suggested by Resimate. From a regulatory standpoint, it’s gotten much easier to build an accessory dwelling unit (ADU) across North America. A slew of states, provinces and cities have …

The Overlook Walk is set to open this fall ahead of schedule, but the bike path opening lags behind. With projects on the Seattle Waterfront nearing completion, one question keeps popping up: when will the …