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urban planning

charter city

Charter Cities Can Help the UN Meet Its Sustainable Development Goals

By 2030, the UN hopes to end extreme poverty, support economic growth and act on environmental issues, but achieving this will require some major outside-the-box thinking.
By Jeffrey Mason
Toyota's new project is not just about testing transportation; it will also serve as a test ground for smart home and artificial intelligence (AI) technology.

Prototype City Trend Takes Shape as Toyota Announces New Project

The automaker announced it is building a new city where people will live and work among the company's blossoming new technologies.
By Andy Hirschfeld
Lyft

Lyft Will Offer Autonomous Rides in 3 Years if Urban Planning Improves

"The city should be serving all of us, but instead it's serving a parked car."
By John Bonazzo
Aerial view of the Moon Pyramid taken during the Teotihuacan Hot Air Balloon Festival in San Juan de Teotihuacan, State of Mexico, March 21st, 2007. The festival is being held on the spring equinox. More than one million people have been visiting Mexico's archaeological sites since yesterday to be "charged with energy" during the equinox.

Democracy Has Existed in the Americas Longer Than We Thought

By Alanna Martinez
NEW YORK, NY - DECEMBER 19: Karlie Kloss (R) and her family stop by the 4D VR Sleigh Ride Experience at Samsung VR Presents: The Night Before in Herald Square on December 19, 2016 in New York City. (Photo by Ilya S. Savenok/Getty Images for Samsung)

Virtual Reality Will Be the Hot New Hangout in 2017

By Brady Dale
A rendering of how the new Lambert Houses will look.

A Crucial Piece of de Blasio’s Housing Plan Blossoms in the Bronx

By Will Bredderman
A bicycle commuter travels past a guard of honour during a wreath laying ceremony by Italian President at the "Neue Wache" memorial for victims of conflict and war in Berlin on March 1, 2013. AFP PHOTO / ODD ANDERSEN

Here’s Why Cyclists Tracking Rides With Strava is Good For Cities

By Brady Dale
Extell's new tower will cantilever over the Art Students League at 215 West 57th Street.

No Sky Zone: Residents of 57th Street Rage Against Extell’s High Rise Row, ‘Gluttonous’ Buildings

By Kim Velsey
An early rendering of the Lowline.

Low Line Raises Support, But Robotic Animals, $55 Million in Fundraising Remain Elusive

By Kim Velsey

Dan Doctoroff Still Has Big Plans―Like Moving the Javits to Sunnyside Yards

By Matt Chaban
Bring it up. (dBox/L&L Holdings)

Foster + Partners Wins 425 Park Sweepstakes, Creating New Midtown Landmark for L&L

By Matt Chaban
The midtown skyline. (Photo: Getty)

No Vacancies: Union, Pols Push for Hotel Restrictions in Midtown East Rezoning

By Matt Chaban

Look Out! DOT Creates Crosswalk Decals, Ad Campaign to Prevent Pedestrian Accidents

By Matt Chaban
Factional changes. (Matt Chaban)

Strolling 6½th Avenue With Janette Sadik-Khan: Office Drones and Tourists Love It, Cabbies Not So Much

By Matt Chaban
They want more to look at. (Getty)

City Planning Says It Is Not Rushing Midtown Rezoning, Though It Has Good Reason to Act Fast

By Matt Chaban
Ford motors along. (Vanessa Rieger)

Would the Next Mayor Really Reverse Mayor Bloomberg’s Re-engineering of the Streets?

By Matt Chaban
NYU had planned to expand its campus by nearly 2.5 million square feet on two superblocks south of Washington Square Park (pictured). After months of negotiations, it has not agreed to a 1.9 million square foot expansion, a 22 percent reduction in space. Almost half the campus is located underground, so the sections above have been cut 26 percent over time.

Renderings and Reactions to NYU’s Greenwich Village Expansion: What It Looks Like, What It Means

By Matt Chaban

Spurring on SPURA: Lower East Side Mega-Development, Decades in the Making, Will Be Affordable Forever

By Matt Chaban
Coming to a Midtown intersection near you. (NYC DOT)

6½th Avenue Gets Greenlight: Pedestrian Passageway Approved by Community Board, Installation in June

By Matt Chaban

Slowing Down 6½th Avenue: DOT Waits to Bring Crosswalk Plan to a Vote

By Matt Chaban
He's graduated to a new gig! (Lehman College)

Adolfo Carrion, Obama’s Old Urban Czar, Picks Up His First Big Client, Nation’s Largest Hispanic Planning Firm

By Matt Chaban

Vishaan Chakrabarti SHoPs Around: Arch-Urbanist Joins Hotshot Architecture Firm

By Matt Chaban
(Jason Seiler)

Obama to Cities: Drop Dead—the Life and Death of a Great American Urban Policy

By Observer Staff
The High Line's extension plans (Getty Images)

Some Brooklynite Complains About Extension of High Line, Which Will Happen Regardless

By Drew Grant
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