A democracy is only as good as the people who participate in it. In this two-part series, Drew Reed explores how Angelenos have voted seemingly against the principles of sustainable planning, resulting in the inequality and sprawl it is now famously trying to undo. Today: how the Dodgers Stadium displaced working-class residents from Chavez Ravine.
In Bowling Alone, Robert Putnam argued that urbanisation, especially suburbanisation, had been harmful to levels of civic engagement in the US. Sifting through recent data on volunteering and civic participation in US Cities, Andy Carr finds some anomalies that suggest density may indeed encourage greater civic engagement where educational and religious organisations are strong.
Wrongheaded to steer young people from clubbing to less alcohol-fuelled pursuits like theatre, since this does nothing to end the culture of victimisation that remains in the clubs themselves.
The Delhi Development Authority (DDA) continues to shift thriving urban communities into lifeless high-rise residential towers, ignorant of the economic base the existing neighbouroods provide.
With investment capital scarce after the global financial crisis, the UK's localism agenda is starting to look unaffordable, with campaigns to make all sorts of projects look like NSIPs to attract funding.
Following Danish architect and professor Jan Gehl, the film examines lives in the mega-cities of 2013.
A multi-stakeholder dialogue about opportunities and barriers in and for cities to become future-just and regenerative habitats.
San Francisco is developing a new paradigm for car parking with meter prices set by market demand and apps to allow drivers to find spaces and pay for them on their smartphone, with New York following in its wake.
Faranak Miraftab gives the floor to members of DAMPA, a grassroots women's organisation with some rather sound strategies for raising awareness and sensitising police officers.
Neither the right nor the left like the appointment of an emergency manager for Detroit, but he will be critical in calming the municipal bond market and preventing infrastructure costs from inflating.
Sceptical of the narrative that cities have wholeheartedly embraced urban gardening, Matt DelSesto spies a connection between city crackdowns on urban gardens and police crackdowns in poor communities.
Henrik Valeur confronts us with the health problems caused by motorised transportation, suggesting that mobility may not be about the balance between public and private, but between motorised and non-motorised.
Cairo's street vendors have benefited from the turmoil of post-revolutionary Egypt, but their demands still fall on deaf ears at the national level.
James Patterson-Waterston is a consultant on strategy, urban planning and development at Happold Consulting, with a particular focus on projects in…
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The Global Urbanist is an online magazine reviewing urban affairs and urban development issues in cities throughout the developed and developing world.
Its readers are drawn from the urban policy and international development sectors, and include urban planners, officers in local, national or international government agencies, civil society leaders, and researchers.
