The urban design category of Fast Company’s Innovation by Design Awards honors products, packaging, and built projects designed to eliminate waste and reuse resources. This year’s winner, HDR and ...

Archaeologists can use the design of ancient temples, plazas, and cities to piece together the story of how a place was governed.

About three years ago, the sociologist Richard Sennett asked his friend and colleague Joan Clos, the executive director of the United Nations Human Settlements Program, if he had ever read the Athens ...

The next generation of 21st century urbanists will face complex social, environmental and economic problems in an increasingly dynamic and interconnected world. The Urban Strategy MS program is a ...

The origins of such exclusionary design–which scholars have called everything from disciplinary architecture to unpleasant design to interdictory space–are ostensibly well-intentioned: to preserve the ...

The Sustainable Urban Design Handbook gathers the best sustainability practices and latest research from the fields of architecture, landscape architecture, planning, development, ecology, and ...

Have you ever considered how spaces are perceived, experienced, and enjoyed from a height of 95 cm? Considering urban design from the child's perspective is essential for fostering inclusive, healthy, ...

Once we can have our old lives back we will likely return to familiar routines and our memories of lockdown and isolation will start to fade. While our lack of memory is arguably a resiliency resource ...

On behalf of the City of Guelph, I am thrilled to congratulate the winners of the 2020/21 Guelph Urban Design Awards. Good ...

Good urban design is essential to building an attractive, well-functioning city while planning for future growth.