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This is our complete listing of Issues for PlanPhilly.
Zoning is a form of “indirect” urban design, as its rules and restrictions dictate what can be built on each parcel in most American cities. Though designers rarely write code themselves, zoning...
Though it often has a negative connotation, development represents the absolutely crucial element of demand to use the urban form. Once completed, the development project ends up helping to define...
Urban planning is relatively new as an official profession, but most settlements and cities were created with varying degrees of consideration for layout and functionality. All cities have been...
Historic preservation is a professional endeavor that seeks to preserve, conserve and protect buildings, objects, landscapes or other artifacts of historic significance. Urban design practitioners...
Infrastructure like roads, water pipes, and sewage systems is simultaneously the most crucial element of urban form while also being the least appreciated. These forms often run below ground...
Any social effects of sound urban design were not discussed in the discipline until Jane Jacob’s Death and Life of Great American Cities, in which she drew a direct connection between successful...
A region’s transportation network is its skeleton and its veins, providing the structure and framework for people to live and circulate. This network can encourage smart and sensitive development, or...
No planning and development issue has been as controversial in Philadelphia as the Commonwealth’s siting of two slots-only casinos on the Delaware riverfront in December 2006. When Pennsylvania...
Government is an inescapable authority in urban planning. This relationship largely arose out of necessity; one example is the creation of Euclidean zoning in American cities, where smoke-...
Sustainable development and sustainability have become important concepts in today’s planning world. Efforts in this area are based on the recognition that current consumption and living habits...
A city’s history plays a significant role in how we move through it, especially East Coast colonial cities such as Philadelphia. William Penn and Thomas Holmes’ grid framework for Center City...
Public space includes everything from the sidewalk in front of your house, the road on which you drive to work, and the playground in which your child plays on the weekend. Each of these spaces...
Once outright avoided because of its industrial contamination, waterfronts now represent some of the most valuable and sought-after real estate and public space opportunities in our cities. ...
Technology is often at the center of innovation in planning and design. Applications of technology can breathe new life into a public space, make a building more attractive, increase energy...
Bicycling can be a form of exercise, recreation, or practical everyday transportation. Bicycles have been increasingly used for commuting and other forms of traversing densely populated areas because...
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