A group of artists and architects attending the 19...  ....The subject of this particular congress was city- planning . The members of CIAM thought that cities were too...

We've posted before about how modern cities are de...  ...rds, fish and other wildlife have returned to the urban core. Also, since the freeways were removed, fewe...  ...before.Read about five other cities that removed urban highways, plus one in the planning

Why are these window labeled as Ancient Lights? Yo...  ...on, and other cities in England. The reason is an urban planning law that dates back to 1663.‘Ancient Lights...

Street, road, avenue, way, esplanade, boulevard, drive, parkway… they all have definitions, even if they aren't used correctly in every town. Knowing the difference can help you make sense of a city and how it was...

We’ve always assumed -or have been told- tha...  ...und their tracks," writes Stephen Smith at Market Urbanism .Unforeseen circumstances combined to make streetc...

Car wrecks are the number one cause of death for Americans under 35. Every year, thousands of people die due to the traffic on America’s highways. But we’ve become used to the statistics, because they seem in...

As Los Angeles grew in the 1920s, in large part because of the film industry, city planners built hundreds of outdoor staircases into the hills to connect new homes with public transportation at the bottom. They aren't u...

Americans are so dependent on cars compared with the rest of the world that parking meters are often seen (or remembered) as an annoyance -and good riddance when they go! But the more you know about them, the more intere...

Cities that are planned before they are populated have a sense of order that can really be appreciated when seen from above. You'd expect that from modern cities, like Brasilia or Canberra, but the beauty of Palmanova, I...

This shopping center in Reading, Pennsylvania has a crosswalk that leads to nowhere. Codes required a certain number of pedestrian crosswalks, despite the fact that there are no sidewalks. This is the required accessible...