Urban planning is as old as civilization. The cities of antiquity reflected the glorification of rulers and their military and religious needs. The first working-class town was designed to provide labour for the building of an Egyptian royal pyramid....

Cities were first established when nomadic people settled around food sources, religious sites, or waterways. Early people soon began to design the arrangement of personal dwellings, religious buildings, food stores, and government centers within their...

The urban and retail business districts of China’s cities are undergoing dynamic and rapid change. Rising income in step with China’s overall rapid economic growth, coupled with greater openness and involvement with the global economy, are...

City planning involves not only the orientation of buildings and streets in a city but also the economic, social, and population conditions of the community. To develop available land or renovate existing property, city planners must understand...

Another key role of urban planning is urban renewal, and re-generation of inner cities by adapting urban planning methods to existing cities suffering from long-term infrastructural...

Location: You’ve been president (twice), executive director and soon-to-be president emeritus of the Municipal Art Society (MAS). Can’t you find another place to work? Mr. Barwick: Actually, in between those jobs, I’ve had a lot of interesting other jobs. I was executive director of the...

After a year of steady growth, New Orleans' rate of repopulation nearly flatlined late last year, according to a report released Tuesday.The Greater New Orleans Community Data Center, which determines whether households are occupied by monitoring their mail delivery, found such deliveries in November to...

Iran has detained an Iranian-American consultant working for George Soros' Open Society Institute, the latest U.S. citizen connected to a non-governmental organization to be seized in the country, the institute said Wednesday.The detention of Kian Tajbakhsh comes amid recent accusations by Iranian authorities that the...

Iran said Sunday it had "no exact report" about an Iranian-American employee of a U.S. foundation promoting democracy missing after a visit to his homeland _ one of several people believed detained in Iran amid rising tensions with the United States.Kian Tajbakhsh, an urban planning...