Housing, planning, and equity must be at the heart of urban transformation, writes the executive director of UN-Habitat.

In 2026, we mark 100 years since the Supreme Court upheld zoning laws, shaping urban development and segregation. Key cases include Euclid, which enabled exclusionary single-family zoning, and ...

Urban resilience and sustainability (URS) is a new kind of professional practice that incorporates the principles of sustainable development. It emerged as a distinct field about 15 years ago, circa ...

Urban environments are in a constant process of social evolution, political and economic transformation. Attached to the idea of urban renewal is gentrification, a complex phenomenon circumscribing a ...

Do you marvel at how places work and want to make them better? Urban and Regional Planning majors use the power of geographical thinking to analyze urban problems and design creative solutions.

The park ends with a broad staircase leading into the sea next to the Fishermen's House. Image Courtesy of BOGL BOGL, a Danish landscape architecture studio, won the open planning and design ...

Goa urban development, housing, and smart city plans led by Vishwajit Rane may feature in Assembly talks.

The government in 2022 inaugurated a task force on Re-engineering and Transformation of Urban Development whose overall goal is to come up with ideas on how to make our cities and urban areas more ...

Industry insiders said the country’s urbanisation processes are being reshaped, with focus shifting from simple expansion to integrated urban development linked by modern infrastructure and higher ...

What fundamental influences are critical to understanding the nature and orientation of planning practice in contemporary India? This paper tracks four approaches that are posited as foundationally ...