Urban Planning

Harriet Tregoning, Resiliency and Planning Expert, Offers Insights for Houston

A career in exemplary comprehensive resilience planning can offer guidance to our region in recovery.

Urban Review: Mardi Gras Beads, Transit Gaps and Public Space Programming

This week: recycling beads, mapping transit gaps and rethinking public spaces with a pause on programming.

Q+A: Introducing Houston’s Department of Transformation

No it's not a real city department but the group of community leaders has real neighborhood change as its goal.

Perspective: Hopes, Questions As Community Undergoes Planning Effort

With a draft plan in hand, one of five pilot Complete Communities neighborhoods reflects on the process.

Changes Bigger Than Self-Driving Cars Headed to a City Near You

Governing | Online shopping and the automation of jobs are going to transform cities.

Urban Review: Driverless Cars, Art and Taxes and a Call to Action for the Texas Delegation

A step by step guide to planning for driverless tech, a city that raised taxes to fund art and a call to get moving on Harvey relief.

Welcome to Acres Homes. Acres Home. Acreage Homes?

A community in transition contemplates its future and its name.

Listen: Near Northside Awaits I-45 Project and the History of Houston’s Transportation Struggles

The podcast is back with a visit to one of the neighborhoods in the path of a major highway project and an interview with Kyle Shelton about his history of Houston transportation decisions.

Perspective: From the Notebook of Pedestrian Pete

A lifetime thinking about his hometown and beautiful spaces across the world led him to believe in the power of place.

What Should Houston’s Regional Transit Network Look Like in 2045?

Now’s your chance to weigh in.

Houston and the Netherlands: Lessons in Flood Resilience

The Dutch can share its lessons with Houston when it comes to flooding, but Houston offers its own insights too.

Remembering Pedestrian Pete

Irascible, ornery, unconventional, Pedestrian Pete pushed Houston to be better and embrace walkable urbanism.

Making A Bird-Friendly Houston

And why bird-friendly design matters for flooding too.

Watch Two Decades of Growth in Houston

21 years. One GIF. The spread of development in the fast-growing Houston area.

How Can We Make Sprawling Houston Feel Urban and Walkable?

Why the city needs to revisit the city-wide code.