New Cities

Life After Covid-19: Inspirations from Frank Lloyd Wright on the Future of Cities

The three “master builders” of American architecture – Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe, and Frank Lloyd Wright – each influenced the...

Why Most People Drive when They Could Take Transit

One of the most popular terms in planning is “automobile dependence”. The premise asserts that most people in most places in the United...

Saudi Arabia's NEOM is Breeding a New City Built Around Genetic Engineering

Cities for people or people for cities? An unlikely marriage between city planning and gene modification is reinventing the future city....

How to Plan Cities in the Age of COVID-19: Part One

By Roger Weber This will be the first part of a series in as many parts as it takes me to sort out some thoughts on how city planning can...

How Do You Build a New City? Eight Steps to Realizing a Sustainable Metropolis

So you've got some land and want to build a new city? Or maybe you just know you want to build a city, but you don't have the land yet....

KAEC vs. NEOM: Inside the Development War Between Saudi Arabia's Sibling New Cities

As one of the most conservative countries on earth takes on the 21st century, a pair of government-initiated new cities are among its...

An Invitation for Investment: Could a New Privately Developed City Save Zimbabwe?

As we've explored potential locations for the next great new global city, a million-to-one longshot is rising to the surface as a...

Battle of the Titans of Urban Planning: Andres Duany vs. Rem Koolhaas

In 1999 at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, the two titans of contemporary urban planning had an epic debate: New Urbanism vs....

The Paleo Cities of Tomorrow

Ten years removed from the Great Recession, America is gaining perspective on its impacts. Nowhere is this truer than within the urban...

Techno Fixing the Urban Zone

In 2008, when Chicago inked a deal to privatize its parking meters, a chorus of groans ensued. To say that the deal was widely panned is...

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