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Many of the students have played computer games like Sim City or The Sims, Harper said, but Wednesday's activity delved deeper into the thought that goes into community planning.
Students contrasted a city's "needs" -- hospitals, post offices, police stations, prisons, a water treatment plant and high schools -- with its "wants" -- a football stadium, a fancy Italian restaurant, a culture center, a McDonald's, a golf course and an amusement park.
They explored professions in the community
With the battle lines drawn and insults flying in the war over the Wake County school system, it was time Saturday for the annual Urban Design Forum in Raleigh, a collaboration of the N.C. State University College of Design and the city's department of planning. "Designing for Resilient Cities" was the order of the day. What's a resilient city?
Obama says no to Ph.D programs in the Humanities (maybe not, but you get the gist)!
On May 21-22, 1909, 43 planners met in Washington, D.C., at the first National Planning Conference. This event is considered to be the birth of the p
Rounding out Planetizen's list of the top 10 programs are Rutgers; the State University of New Jersey; the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champai
An enormous orange compendium, The Endless City approaches architecture itself in scale, scope and design.
Douglas Farr's Sustainable Urbanism: Urban Design With Nature (Wiley, 2008; foreword by Andres Duany) falls into the category of win-win for everyon
International organization devoted to “creating a place at the table†for youth in urban planning, policy and community change holds first annual con
Jake Gao's vision for an environmentally sustainable, economically prosperous South End of Albany has earned national recognition from APA.
"(Superb information-economy workers) emerge from intact families, quality neighborhoods and healthy moral cultures."
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