Jeff Speck outlines five principal reasons to build walkable communities, which include:

Understanding the basics of AI provides urban planners with ideas for integrating improved methods into their work and enhancing their analytical outputs. AI can offer data-driven insights for informed decision-making, predict future urban growth patterns, and optimize resource allocation.

Suburbs are taking center stage in America’s struggle to achieve equity and inclusivity. Urban cores are increasingly white and affluent, while poverty—with all its related dimensions of race, education, and class—is moving to suburbs.

Universal Design stresses the development of a built environment that is inclusive and welcoming for all, including those with physical disabilities.