"Urban Design" Blogs & Blog Posts

At a crosswalk in Vancouver's Granville Island, there's a box of bricks mounted to a pole. A sign attached to the pole says: BE SEENGRAB A BRICK 1. GRAB2. LOOK3. WAVE4. CROSS On the other side of the street there's another box and sign so you can d...

“Biophilic design” is a term used to describe an overall connection with nature in the composition of an interior space. Humans have a tendency to be attracted to other life forms, and biophilic design taps into the inherent allure of our ecosyst...

Paris is showing the world the future (their present) of good urban design, and it’s all about 15 minutes. We’ve looked at this concept before, and every year Paris pushes us further. The city has already reduced their reliance on automob...

The New York Times has an extraordinary article—building on some earlier research from Yale Environment 360—that illustrates with frightening detail how racism, urban planning, and climate change go hand-in-hand. Using the city of Richmond as a m...

I live in Toronto where cars are king and everything else deserves to be banned from the road, heck we rip up bike lanes while other cities grow their bicycle networks (and we’re spending millions on a highway that gets fewer users than a bus r...

Bad urban design makes for poor living conditions and when cars are involved it can mean lethal conditions. As people know all to well, the last century’s bizarre love of the automobile has given us a lot of issues that we need to deal with tod...

Having grown up in a traditional 1950s 3-bed semi and lived in both terraced and detached houses as an adult, all I can ask is... why?Terraced housesPlus points- lower construction costs and very efficient use of utility connections (which run along...