Planning
UK government hires Google to develop AI planning tool to make “near-instant decisions”
This week Australia unveiled plans for first new city in a century
“We don’t want to develop like Europe” says Suriname’s architect minister
“The best climate activist is a good urban planner”
Does London need the Sphere?
Create Streets proposes building housing on Britain’s “needlessly wide” roads
“Wren’s rebuilding on the medieval street pattern is the essence of London” say architects
“Are we ready to see public housing’s beauty and suburbia’s impoverishment?”
52-storey Morris + Company tower delayed amid fire brigade concerns over single staircase
SO-IL builds Las Americas affordable housing development in Mexico
“Architects still don’t understand the role of planning”
Permitted development homes in England must meet space standards
New homes in England to have bird-friendly swift bricks in planning reform
Alexis Şanal creates City Making 101 card game for urban planning role play
Four tips for successful narrative placemaking from Era-co
England’s new biodiversity net gain rules explained
“I have a confession to make: I have no idea what placemaking is”
Paris reinstates skyscraper ban following Tour Triangle backlash
“Using street votes to fix the housing crisis is like rearranging the deckchairs on the Titanic”
Bee bricks become planning requirement for new buildings in Brighton
Urbania is an interactive exhibition about city planning in Prague
UK government’s housing formula “does not make sense” say planning groups
Nicholas Boys Smith to lead new government task force to “embed beauty” in the planning system
