From lit-up orbs to bland office blocks, cities are full of buildings that people do or do not like. What really shapes how they live – for better or for worse – is urban planning.
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Small suburbs have a track record of blocking new housing. Two urban policy experts explain why that’s a problem and what metro areas could do about it.
Quite how to gauge the size of a city – or where one ends and the next begins – is getting harder to determine. The 21st century belongs to the limitless city.
A populist movement that threatened to topple a French government more than 60 years ago has important lessons for today’s protests and why they represent a reckoning.
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Chair and Professor of Planning, UCL
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Associate Professor of Political Science, Georgia State University
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Professor of Geographic Information and Cartography, UCL
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Associate Professor of Politics and Global Studies, Arizona State University
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Associate Professor of Urban Planning and Public Policy, University of California, Irvine
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Professor of Development Planning, UCL
