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20th anniversary of the blog| Urban revitalization systems thinking's greatest hits: Part two -- not transportation

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Rational planning is pretty static at least to me, with constrained scopes and less willingness to change approaches and recommendations as new information is uncovered. Once too, I misheard a presentation at a conference, and I thought the presenter said she applies "graphic design" approaches to urban planning.

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Women's History Month and urban planning

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

In any case, such divisions are often artificial, with women in developing-world cities undertaking economic activity that has too often been ignored. -- " Female-Friendly Cities: Rethinking the Patriarchy of Urban Planning ," Ms. For the most part, links have not been checked. Women as planners and architects. 3, Supplement.

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African American History Month and Transportation: February 4th | Transit Equity Day

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The study provides a more accurate assessment of racial/ethnic disparities in traffic deaths than previous traffic mortality studies, which have not accounted for these differences in travel distances, and thus, underestimated both the traffic-related risks and deaths that Black and Hispanic Americans experience. Disparities in enforcement.