Urban Planning
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Climate and Environment
How cities respond to heat, integrate green space, and adapt to environmental challenges.
Parks and Green Spaces
Urban Heat and Resilience
Comparative Urbanism
Contrasts between how different countries and cultures approach city life and design.
U.S. and Spanish Cities
Design and Architecture
Historical and contemporary debates about how cities and buildings are designed.
Architecture History and Criticism
Singapore and Dublin Projects
Housing and Development
Debates over residential construction, affordability, and the evolution of neighborhoods and suburbs.
Housing Development Debates
Neighborhood Change
Planning Methods and Tools
Approaches planners use to analyze cities and debates over planning theory and practice.
Data and AI in Planning
Planning Theory and Practice
Public Space and Inclusion
Debates over who public spaces serve and how design can exclude or welcome different groups.
Community Health and Third Places
Hostile Architecture
Transportation and Mobility
Debates and proposals around how people move through cities by transit, bicycle, and on foot.
Bicycle Infrastructure
Car Dependence Critiques
Public Transit Expansion
Street Safety and Traffic
Walkable Streets
Urban History and Theory
Foundational questions about what cities are, how they began, and where they are headed.
