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For Your Calendar: Recommended Urban Planning Conferences 2025-2026
One of the best ways to learn about and share innovative urban solutions is attending conferences. Here's an overview of ...
London Design Biennale 2025: Designing Without a Designer
What if buildings grew like trees, cities flowed like rivers, and design knowledge came from the crowd? The Design Biennale ...
Summer in the City: Practical Cooling Solutions for Urban Planners
A toolkit for summer resilience: how cities can increase comfort and decrease heat with shade, water, shelter, and smart design ...
Contribute to the Urban Solutions Journal: Stories that Make Cities Better
Whether you are an urban planner, architect, designer, activist, researcher, or resident: if your story fits the criteria, this could ...
Seeing It Through Their Eyes: Sparking Public Interest in Urban Planning
Urban planner and communicator Lisa Vlasak shares how empathy, clarity, and creativity can make planning processes more inclusive - and ...
Reclaiming Sacred Ground: How a Forgotten Churchyard Became a Public Space for Play and Belonging
A bold redesign in Wehrheim, Germany, shows how religious spaces can evolve into inclusive, intergenerational places for community life ...
