Games for Cities is a five day training programme that will be held weekly in Amsterdam from 25 September to 30 October 2025. In this five-day training, you will learn how to develop and strategically apply games to address complex spatial and societal challenges. Drawing on theory and latest technologies such as Urban AI, digital […]| PAXsims
Many city leaders throughout the U.S. are advancing expansions or major overhauls of their convention centers as competition for large events intensifies and cities chase visitor spending. Notable examples include Houston, where a $2 billion convention-district plan is moving through pre-construction and enabling work; Los Angeles, where council-approved modernization is slated to break ground in […] The post U.S. cities are reshaping venues to attract the next big events appeared first on ...| InfrastructureUSA: Citizen Dialogue About Civil Infrastructure
News of a string of talks and workshops in Perth, Melbourne, Adelaide, Canberra, Sydney and Brisbane in October 2023. Continue reading →| Rethinking Childhood
Your chance to catch the two online launch events for my new book Urban Playground, which took place on 24 and 25 February 2021. Continue reading →| Rethinking Childhood
Hear leading designers, developers, politicians, play champions and officials from London and around the world discuss my new book Urban Playground at 2 public online panel events on 24 and 25 Feb. Continue reading →| Rethinking Childhood
News of a festive offer, and a sample of page spreads to whet your appetite. Continue reading →| Rethinking Childhood
With its booming population of young parents, Tel Aviv is giving its parks a playful makeover, and investing in cycling and public transport. But will it fix its congested streets, and can it reach the poorest neighbourhoods? Continue reading →| Rethinking Childhood
Downtowns overweighted in office space face falling values and shrinking tax bases. Swift conversions to housing and mixed-use are essential to prevent fiscal and social decline.| The Builder's Daily
Denver’s city council voted to eliminate parking minimums citywide, aligning with a national movement to cut costs, speed approvals, and clear the way for more housing.| The Builder's Daily
Wasaga Beach is a treasure of provincial significance. It deserves to remain owned by the public and fully open to all, with better access to those who can't or don't want to drive.| Sean Marshall
Transit operators in Ontario generally do a much better job than American counterparts at serving large retailers like Walmart. Still, big box retail centres are hostile environments for transit an…| Sean Marshall
A data-driven approach to understanding, predicting, and preventing heat-related deaths in urban neighborhoods. The post How Cities Can Beat Extreme Heat: Mapping the Invisible Killer appeared first on Open Geospatial Consortium.| Open Geospatial Consortium
Discover fresh Indigenous perspectives on urban spaces this summer! Dive into stories, studies, and insights from ancient cities to modern urban life worldwide. Explore. Reflect. Enjoy! Der Beitrag Summer Reading List: Explore Indigenous Perspectives on Urban Spaces! erschien zuerst auf Urbanet.| Urbanet
Climate migration is no longer a future threat: It’s a present-day reality, with cities on the frontline of response. From building resilient, inclusive infrastructure to shifting public narratives and planning ahead, local governments have a critical role to play.| CityTalk
Utrecht is planning a new high-quality cycling route, known as the Fietsroute om de Noord—literally the “Cycle Route around the North”. This new corridor is intended to relieve pressure on the city…| BICYCLE DUTCH
The occasion of the 5 year anniversary of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Centre (SNFCC) is a time to reflect on the contributions of the centre to Athenian life. The SNFCC was planned and constructed during the most turbulent and wearying years of the country’s financial crisis. It was and is a project unique in Greece, […]| MI4 Real Estate
In a majority-homeowner nation, the rental crisis alone cannot explain Harris’s defeat, especially since the concentration of renters in cities means that as a group they likely still tilted toward her. But the demographic overlap between tenants and those who moved away from Harris cannot be ignored. Moreover, the failure to adequately address the housing crisis exemplifies the fecklessness that doomed Harris’s campaign. Any effort to challenge Trump and the reactionary forces he spearhe...| n+1Articles – n+1
Mississauga City Centre has many good places to walk to, but still has too many trappings of a suburban speedway| Sean Marshall
It’s been exactly fifteen years since I published a video that went unexpectedly viral. If you’ve followed me for a while, you’ll know that I love creating “before and after” videos to document cha…| BICYCLE DUTCH
What if, beneath the apparent gender diversity, the playground reveals that urban space is far from egalitarian?| C & G Construction Supply Company
What scares them is something else: the realization spreading across Los Angeles that the private housing market isn’t just failing wildfire victims—it’s failing by design. That the inability to meet this moment isn’t the result of a few bad landlords, it’s a feature of a system built to extract. What landlords fear is that we might imagine something better: a world where housing isn’t a commodity at all, a world without landlords.| n+1Articles – n+1
Explore the benefits of Blue UAS Capture for secure, reliable data collection in defense, critical infrastructure, and energy industries.| FlyGuys
Every decision in construction and land development has far-reaching implications on time, cost, and environmental sustainability. A critical aspect of successful project execution is cut and fill…| FlyGuys
The restoration of Polachery lake near Chennai shows how scientific interventions and community participation can recover lost biodiversity.| India Development Review
C40 Cities, Community Jameel and UrbanShift launch a new 'Climate Action Guide for Urban Planners' at the World Urban Forum in Cairo, Egypt.| C40 Cities
Crespi counts more than 90 construction cranes dotting the skyline.| Commercial Observer
It took the Dutch until the twentieth century to dig a banjir (flood) canal and it is only recently that another canal was dug to allow rivers to circumvent the city on the other side. Despite this, modern Jakarta still floods. So what is the long-term solution? Whatever approach is…| Indonesia at Melbourne
Explore how cities like Rome and Fortaleza are using AI to drive urban sustainability, inspired by insights from the ICLEI World Congress.| Urbanet
Urban and rural areas represent two systems of interaction and symbiosis. Throughout history, the urban-rural... The post Urban- Rural Symbiosis: Trajectory of growth appeared first on citiesforum.org.| citiesforum.org
Urbanization is intrinsically linked to and can function as a transformation driver of sustainable development.... The post What is New Urban Agenda ? appeared first on citiesforum.org.| citiesforum.org
The 5-minute walk, also known as the “pedestrian shed” is considered to be the distance people are willing to walk before opting to drive.| MORPHOCODE
Buoyed by the success of their groundbreaking Don Mills garden city, in 1957 Don Mills Developments Limited launched its Parkway West community. Located southwest of York Mills Road and the Don Val…| Toronto Modern