#Green #cities can become oddly genteel: all campuses, cafés and climate slogans, with too little thought for where things are made, stored or repaired. In European Planning Studies, Stefano Di Vita & @yonnd.bsky.social argue that net zero needs blue-collar #urbanism too. doi.org/10.1080/0965...

Future Urban Sustainability: Lessons Learnt From the SDGs and Perspectives for a Post-2030 Agenda www.cogitatiopress.com/urbanplannin...

Public Urban Cultures of Care www.cogitatiopress.com/urbanplannin...

🌍📢 Call for Papers!! Urban Studies seeks submissions for a special issue on Climate Urbanism, Resilience & Justice — exploring how cities confront the climate crisis, risk, & inequality. @urbanstudiesjournal.com @acuto.bsky.social  www.urbanstudiesjournal.com/callforpaper...

Doesn’t ‘feel so good’ today — but what a great one. Chuck Mangione, ‘Smooth Jazz’ Hitmaker With a Fluegelhorn, Dies at 84 www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/a...

The Role of Planning in ‘Anti-Democratic’ Times www.cogitatiopress.com/urbanplannin...

In Curitiba’s Rapid Bus Rapid Transit system this week, the world’s best and most famous. A real achievement: easy, safe, comprehensive, affordable— but also competing with Uber.

Place-Shaping Through and With Time: Urban Planning as a Temporal Art and Social Science www.cogitatiopress.com/urbanplannin...

Hot off the press! Our new open access issue explores how participatory approaches advance UN SDGs, tackling urban challenges and advocating for transformative governance shifts. @martintomitsch.bsky.social @evamaalov.bsky.social

# Tacoma is striving to pick up its pace of housing growth. The City hopes newly enact multiplex zoning while help it hit 325,000 residents in a few decades tim…

26 points is set to be the final winning margin for the social housing measure Proposition 1A. With nearly all ballots accounted for, it's 63% to 37%. A decisive victory. Background: www.theurbanist.org/2025/02/13/s...

Huge turnout to protest the abuses of the Trump administration and save the civil service in downtown Seattle. Thousands in attendance.

Remembering today of all days the 34 year old better angel of our nature.

CP Nelson says members should oppose Strauss's motion. "This is an economic development bill with a land use element," she says. "What is motivating me is the fact that small industrial businesses need more space in Seattle." She says 2-3 "makers" businesses leave Seattle every month.

Years and years and years lecturing on London; now, finally, a big US case to consider. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/01...

A bit before I joined BlueSky: www.cogitatiopress.com/urbanplannin...

How do newcomers navigate the challenges of arriving in a new place? Our new open access issue explores the creative ways migrants and residents work together, often blurring the lines between formal and informal systems, to build connections and access resources. Issue: shortt.link/up396bsky

Less interesting here claim is the planning and design theory than a (former) society with”…talented local authority surveyors, solicitors and architects who knew how to get things done and who took the idea of public service seriously.”

The government says it wants to build ‘beautiful’ architecture. But what does that really mean? www.prospectmagazine...

Why aren't cities designed for kids? Our new open access issue explores how cities can be made more child-friendly, considering factors like safe mobility, accessible play spaces, and connection with nature. shortt.link/up350bsky @owenwaygood.bsky.social