The history of planning is replete with theories reified in their heyday but then lose their sheen under the scrutiny of hindsight. From Howard’s Garden Cities to Corbusier’s High Modernism, the waxing and waning of planning “fads” seems to plague the legacy … Continue reading →

The job of a city planner is to identify everything wrong with their city and propose feasible solutions that will create a more sustainable city without draining taxpayers dry. Hundreds of thousands of city planners have dedicated themselves to the … Continue reading →

At the beginning of the fall semester students shared their ideas of damaged and ideal places from around the world. The end of the semester yielded as rich a variety of reflections on urban planning. Student teams produced blogs that … Continue reading →

Students in The Promise and Pitfalls of Contemporary Planning were asked to share images of “ideal” and “damaged” places. The assignment yielded over 80 images of locations around the world. These included urban, rural, and suburban areas in North and … Continue reading →

Check out this great article on planning diagrams: Grand Reductions: 10 Diagrams that Changed City Planning.

CRP 2000 students: this is our new course blog. Feel free to suggest a new banner image for it. The current one is just a template. It would need to be sized to fit and work with the theme of … Continue reading →