By Diane Frances Luebs Mixed-use development is one strategy that cities can use to decrease their carbon footprint.  This strategy involves creating neighborhoods that have homes, businesses, and commercial buildings in the same area.  In some cases, this could even … Continue reading →

By Garrett Craig-Lucas Located at the confluence of land and water, urban waterfronts possess unique characteristics due to ecology, economic histories, and associated development patterns. While many urban waterfronts suffer from economic and physical decline as industrial uses recede, exciting … Continue reading →

By Ralph-Cedric Comeau Affordable Housing has always been a crisis as cities and towns heavily support housing discrimination through exclusionary zoning. Exclusionary zoning is the mechanism through which affluent neighborhoods like that of New York City and suburbs like that … Continue reading →

By Eileen Cuevas NOTE: This post builds off of a previous post. Please read this post before continuing. Thanks to Le Corbusier, Chandigarh is known as a bold experimentation of planning. While the history of the city is important, how … Continue reading →

By Eileen Cuevas Chandigarh’s history as a city had always set it apart from other cities in the country thanks to its status as the country’s first planned city. Because it was planned, it was susceptible to the differing influential … Continue reading →

By Patrick Braga (For a historical background on this historiographical and theoretical analysis of the story of Moroccan urbanism discussed in this post, please read The History and Legacies of Urbanism in Casablanca first.) Modernism, modernity, and modernization as intertwining … Continue reading →

By Patrick Braga Morocco has long been described as a laboratory for modernist urban planning. Under French colonialism, Moroccan cities became experiments for ideas and visions of how cities in France could come to evolve within a perspective of modernist … Continue reading →