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When students at Hughes STEM High School in Cincinnati were asked back in 2016 what part of their school they’d like to improve, they identified Coy Field – an athletic field they use for baseball, ...

Marissa Haugh has built her career on a clear conviction: affordable housing policy is meaningless if it fails in practice.

In 2026, we mark 100 years since the Supreme Court upheld zoning laws, shaping urban development and segregation. Key cases include Euclid, which enabled exclusionary single-family zoning, and ...

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Emmanuel Frimpong Boamah, an associate professor of urban and regional planning at the University of Buffalo and its Community for Global Health Equity, will offer a seminar on the “Water-Land-Health ...

A coalition of West Michigan organizations will bring one of the world's foremost urban planners to Grand Rapids for a public talk on November 9. Jan Gehl is the principal of Gehl Architects, a Danish ...

Tasmanians will soon be able to build second dwellings that are 50 per cent larger than the current size. An urban planner ...