It's possible to advance many explanations for the rise of zoning in the United States in the 1920s: classism , resurgent racism , react...

In a recent post , Daniel Kay Hertz examines residential filtering, the process by which housing units depreciate and therefore become avail...

I've been reading through the 1912 " Plan of the City of Hartford " by the legendary firm Carrère and Hastings, a document wh...

It's common to hear from certain quarters that not only did the advent of mass motoring in the mid-20th century lead to a change in the ...

Chris Bradford has recently run an excellent series of posts featuring the Census Bureau's newly-released data covering population-wei...

In the response to Wednesday's post, commenter Marc mentioned the example of the Mietskaserne (roughly, "tenement"), the mid-r...

Allan Jacobs' Great Streets is an urbanist classic, combining a planner's eye for the details of the urban form with an appreciatio...