Generative urban AI platforms can move from vision into reality in seconds with dozens, if not hundreds, of iterations and scenarios to choose from. Cities, the pulsating hubs of human civilization, ...

“The sudden and shocking dismantling of the Urban Design Division at the NYC Department of City Planning is a huge step backwards for New York. Over the past two decades, their advocacy for the public ...

Research shows that modern urban design can be detrimental to mental health. Here’s what to look for in a hometown if you’re tired of city living. Film, literature and music has long romanticized the ...

Trnava, the regional vision-having city of 62,000 inhabitants, launches an international two-stage urban design competition of an unprecedented scale across Slovakia. From the point of the history of ...

Thirty years ago, Scene writer Christine Kreyling trained her attention on one downtown boulevard that looked, to her, like a huge mistake. City planners had proposed a massive arterial road in part ...

Urban environments shape microbial exposure through building design, occupancy, ventilation, moisture, and contact with green ...

Several blocks of Congress Avenue in downtown Austin could eventually become grassy, walkable public plazas as the city proposes to turn the highly trafficked roadway north of Lady Bird Lake into a ...

First Prize Winner: A Thread Through Time. Image Courtesy of Buildner Buildner has announced the results of the Dubai Urban Elements Challenge, a landmark international design competition organized in ...