Planning in Central America in the 21st century: Possibilities and limitations for resilience implementation

10 min read Guest author: Carlos Ferrufino (Universidad Centroamericana – UCA) Editors’ note: This post is a short paper that …

Planning around COP25: call for blog posts

The recent UN climate conference COP25 took place in Madrid last December. The conference fell short of consensus in many …

Planning for green and sustainable public procurement in the construction sector

Guest author: Kedar Uttam A reflection on how green and sustainable public procurement must be steered in the construction sector. …

Changing Planning Culture in Flanders, third time a charm?

Guest author:  Clemens de Olde, University of Antwerp Shifting paradigms It is an interesting time for planners in the Belgian region …

What resilience planning can tell us about decentralization and community engagement

By Irina Paraschivoiu “Resilience” has come to be used frequently in planning, and currently encompasses strategies dealing with economic downturns, …

Planning and City-Region Governance: Challenges for Urban Development in Bucharest

By Irina Paraschivoiu (LSE) & Fabian Wenner (LSE) Despite sharing some of the common challenges faced by post-socialist cities, the …

Planning in Google Trends

Google Trends is one of those features that make modern life both awkward and amazing. For those who don’t know …

Literature reviews: start (and end) with ‘why?’

12 min. read Starting our series of posts around urban studies research and pedagogical alternatives post-2020, we have our very …

YA blog outlook: 2014-2020 & beyond

Read time: 5 minutes This post gives an overview of the growing activity on the blog since its launch in …

Urban Information Systems

In this post I discuss Urban Information Systems, and how they fit into wider society. Urban Information Systems – a modern …