As cities face pressure to deliver both more housing and stronger climate action, research on Finnish and German cities shows that integration remains difficult at the local level, where political priorities and institutional silos often push climate concerns aside.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19491247.2026.2668196#abstract
#urbanism #urbanplanning #ClimateAction #HousingCrisis #SustainableCities
Phnom Penh’s Walk Street initiative has been a success, drawing 100k visitors every weekend and creating 1,400 jobs.
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“Future City Regions: Urbanism and Architecture in Times of Uncertainty,” invites abstracts for contributions exploring how spatial decision-making can become more explorative. Abstracts are due June 22.
#urbanism #urbanplanning #Architecture #FutureCities #SpatialPlanning
EXTENDED DEADLINE!! Call for Abstracts until 22 June 2026 https://lnkd.in/e36HaN56 We warmly invite you to contribute to the international conference Future City Regions: Urbanism and Architecture in Times of Uncertainty, taking place from 22 to 24 November 2026 in Aachen. City regions are increasingly shaped by decisions made before their long-term consequences can be fully known. Rather than treating this uncertainty as a background condition, the conference takes it as a starting point and asks how spatial decision-making can become more explorative: how knowledge is produced under incomplete information, how judgement replaces optimisation, and how insights travel across contexts. We welcome contributions along three lines of inquiry: Heritage: how continuity, identity, and use are negotiated over time and reinterpreted through adaptive reuse, governance, and everyday urban change. Resilience: how risks, resources, and responsibilities are organised across housing, energy, mobility, circularity, and cross-border cooperation. Spatial practice and research: how knowledge becomes strategy and built form through explorative methods such as AI-supported and scenario-based approaches, data-driven practices, and living laboratories. Proposals may be conceptual, methodological, or practice-based, and we equally welcome contributions that extend beyond these themes. We look forward to your abstracts and to exploring these questions together in November. Confirmed Keynotes: Stefano Moroni, Politecnico di Milano Andreas Kipar, LAND, Milano/Düsseldorf Yasmin Kherad, Herzog & DeMeuron, Basel/Berlin Selected contributions will be considered for publication in a special issue.
A Bogotá experiment suggests public transport vouchers can boost ridership more effectively than fare discounts by expanding how users mentally budget for transit, showing how behavioral design can shape mobility policy.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214804326000868?via%3Dihub
#urbanism #urbanplanning #PublicTransit #MobilityPolicy #BehavioralDesign
I saw a Waymo in central London yesterday and where once I would have marvelled at the Future I know despise an unproved and immature technology being unleashed on my city by Tech Bros perverts...
https://www.wired.com/story/welcome-to-the-waymo-world-cup/
#Waymo #ButlerianJihad #SelfDriving #Technology #TechBros #EpsteinClass #London #Transport #Urbanism
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The Rockefeller Foundation is hiring a managing director, civic innovation and AI to work with state and local governments, workforce systems and partners to ensure AI advancements translate into real job outcomes and stronger economic pathways, moving beyond mere pilots. $226k to 277k salary.
We're hiring a Managing Director of Civic Innovation and AI to join my team at The Rockefeller Foundation. The core of it is straightforward: working with state and local governments, workforce systems, and partners to make sure advances in AI translate into real job outcomes — faster hiring, better access, stronger systems — not just interesting pilots. It sits at the intersection of technology, workforce, and economic opportunity, and it's embedded in our broader "good jobs" strategy focused on connecting people to quality employment and helping communities build more durable economic pathways. We're looking for someone equally comfortable thinking big-picture about how technology is reshaping the labor market and getting into the weeds with partners to make things actually work on the ground. It's a senior, build-and-shape role for someone who's tired of watching promising ideas stop at the proof-of-concept stage. If that sounds like you — or someone in your network — please apply or pass this along. https://lnkd.in/e449-cUt | 25 comments on LinkedIn
NYCHA is turning public housing into a test case for green affordable housing, using bulk purchasing of heat pumps and induction stoves to reduce emissions, improve comfort and lower long-term costs.
#urbanism #urbanplanning #Sustainability #PublicHousing #GreenEnergy
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