• Vision for healing a megacity

    Bangalore has grown like a plate of seafood spaghetti—it's green spaces are reduced to a few sprigs. The city needs a new vision.
    Bangalore residents love their city. And Singapore residents have immense pride in their city. They are evangelical in inviting visitors to their city, to have the global population witness and endorse their success. Bangalore was known as the ‘garden city’ of India. Legend has it that in the 1960s...Read more

  • Neighborhoods are key to sustainable future

    A review of Douglas Farr’s Sustainable Nation: Urban Design Patterns for the Future
    Safeguarding the environment—largely by designing and operating buildings and communities more wisely than we’ve done for the past 200 years—is the most crucial endeavor the Earth’s inhabitants are now engaged in. If we fail, not only will the weather turn more deadly. Many species will die out,...Read more

  • Using software to measure the UrbanFootprint

    A new urban tool is designed help cities, planners, and developers with scenario planning.
    Peter Calthorpe and his partner Joe DiStefano have a venture-capital funded startup designed to provide municipalities, non-governmental organizations, developers, and design and planning firms with a powerful cloud-based software tool for planning walkable, transit-served communities. Fast Company...Read more

  • Five takeaways from the 2018 World Urban Forum

    Implementing the New Urban Agenda will be hard work—public spaces, including streets, provide the tissue connecting people to the benefits of cities.
    It's been over a year now since all 193 countries of the United Nations adopted by acclamation the "New Urban Agenda," the outcome document of the Habitat III conference held in October 2016. The historic nature of that achievement is hard to over-state: for the first time, we have a world-wide...Read more