The School of Cities and Canadian Urban Institute launched the Learning From What Works 2026 Cohort, a call for Canada’s best place-building solutions. Winning ideas will receive a portion of a $10,000 grant. June 15.
https://schoolofcities.utoronto.ca/research-publications/learning-from-what-works/local-solutions/
#urbanism #urbanplanning #PlaceBuilding #CanadaUrban #CityBuilding
Sidewalk Nation: The Life and Law of America's Most Overlooked Resource
Michael Pollack
(Harvard University Press, 2026)
"An illuminating ramble along the American sidewalk: routinely unnoticed, yet central to daily life, neighborhood vitality, and significant legal controversies.
Public infrastructure is as essential to our communities as it is easily overlooked. A case in point is the humble sidewalk: constantly taken for granted, yet linked to nearly every pressing issue of local governance in urban, suburban, and even rural areas. From commerce, taxes, and property rights to policing, homelessness, and surveillance; from free speech and socioeconomic equity to public health and climate resilience—sidewalks, surprisingly, are at the core of numerous major debates.
Sidewalk Nation offers a vivid travelogue spanning more than a dozen cities and towns across the United States to show how diverse communities are grappling with big challenges. Some are prosaic, if critical: How do we ensure that sidewalks facilitate mobility for disabled people? Whose job is it to clear snow from public space? And some touch on the most profound issues in law, including our rights under the First and Fourth Amendments. While traversing the country, Michael Pollack provides expert insight into the property, tax, and zoning laws that shape sidewalk management and land use more broadly. Offering a holistic vision for improving a vital resource, Pollack argues for reforms to ensure that local governments have both the obligation and the funding needed to give due attention to sidewalks and all that they offer.
Whether elected officials, civil servants, engineers, developers, or voters, everyone has a stake in the question of where sidewalks should be placed and how they should be used. Indeed, as Sidewalk Nation makes clear, what’s under our feet should be at the front of our minds..."
https://www.google.pt/books/edition/Sidewalk_Nation/iQvUEQAAQBAJ
An illuminating ramble along the American sidewalk: routinely unnoticed, yet central to daily life, neighborhood vitality, and significant legal controversies.Public infrastructure is as essential to our communities as it is easily overlooked. A case in point is the humble sidewalk: constantly taken for granted, yet linked to nearly every pressing issue of local governance in urban, suburban, and even rural areas. From commerce, taxes, and property rights to policing, homelessness, and surveillance; from free speech and socioeconomic equity to public health and climate resilience—sidewalks, surprisingly, are at the core of numerous major debates.Sidewalk Nation offers a vivid travelogue spanning more than a dozen cities and towns across the United States to show how diverse communities are grappling with big challenges. Some are prosaic, if critical: How do we ensure that sidewalks facilitate mobility for disabled people? Whose job is it to clear snow from public space? And some touch on the most profound issues in law, including our rights under the First and Fourth Amendments. While traversing the country, Michael Pollack provides expert insight into the property, tax, and zoning laws that shape sidewalk management and land use more broadly. Offering a holistic vision for improving a vital resource, Pollack argues for reforms to ensure that local governments have both the obligation and the funding needed to give due attention to sidewalks and all that they offer.Whether elected officials, civil servants, engineers, developers, or voters, everyone has a stake in the question of where sidewalks should be placed and how they should be used. Indeed, as Sidewalk Nation makes clear, what’s under our feet should be at the front of our minds as we decide how to build, regulate, and protect our neighborhoods.
The latest issue of Urbanism Now is out:
BART Prom, Boda Boda tracking, and CLT Commercial Property
https://urbanismnow.substack.com/p/73-bart-prom-boda-boda-tracking-and
Gyaros Island of Exile
project "infrastructural"
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zlB34o5uJR_UN_Y9wRW5bmHVAo10sWB_/view
#gyaros #greece #museum #walkthrough #architecture #landscapeplanning #urbanplanning
Are inter-city rivalries good for transportation justice? Should Trufi develop a transport shaming app?
#India #cityplanning #urbanism #urbanplanner #urbanplanning #inclusiveplanning #SDG11 #TransportationJustice #TrufiAssociation
A Hyderabad resident's post has gone viral online after he claimed to have covered 82 km in the city in just 72 minutes, taking a sharp swipe at Bengaluru's ongoing road infrastructure concerns.
One City Might Have Just Cracked the Housing Crisis
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/15/opinion/vancouver-housing-crisis-development.html
There are more than 14,000 convenience stores across Taiwan. When mapped by store density per square kilometer, they perfectly redraw the island’s urban centers.
The Velo-city 2026 conference aims to inspire action in reshaping cities to improve quality of life and strengthen climate resilience through political leadership, strategic planning and innovative cycling solutions. June 16-19.
https://www.velo-city-conference.com/
#urbanism #urbanplanning #Velocity2026 #ClimateResilience #CyclingSolutions
James Lima Planning + Development is hiring an analyst, urban strategy to perform quantitative and qualitative research, including market analysis and financial modeling. $75k - $85k salary.
https://jlpd.com/media/pages/about/d1144a29de-1779911792/jlp-d-analyst-job-description-2026.pdf
#urbanism #urbanplanning #UrbanStrategy #FinancialModeling #UrbanDevelopment
Sightline Institute is hiring a part-time Alaska housing + cities contributor in Anchorage to build coalitions, engage decision-makers, and advance pro-housing policy.
https://www.sightline.org/alaska-housing-cities-contributor/
#urbanism #urbanplanning #AlaskaHousing #AffordableHousing #CoalitionBuilding
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