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COMING SOON The Case for Cities draws on the expertise of contributors from the academic, professional, and civic sectors to explore the creative tension between the two great values on which the vigor of cities depends—that they should be "Cities of Choice" (places where people who have choice want to live) and "Cities of Justice" (places that welcome and support people with limited choices). The book’s underlying perspective is that these two values are symbiotic and that promoting both is what leads to viable, sustainable urban resurgence. https://lnkd.in/gvRfxpRG

Introducing Reimagining Cities: Disrupting the Urban Doom Loop—an in-depth, innovative research report offering strategies to optimize real estate portfolios and drive lasting economic impact for investors, businesses, policymakers, and communities. The study examines 15 U.S. cities (including Dallas!) to uncover the gap between their current real estate assets and what they need to thrive in the future. https://cushwk.co/3B8llTc

By devising and executing well-thought-out policies that promote vibrancy, U.S. cities can keep changing for the better. CAP's work with the CommonWealth Development Compact is designed to bring such vibrancy, as the article mentions, to the cities of Boston, Cambridge, Lynn, Salem, and Somerville. Learn more about how bold urban strategies will make or break cities in a post-pandemic era here https://lnkd.in/gesXJFMB

Exciting discussions are happening around urban housing transformation! Our latest blog post recaps a panel moderated by Marcela Rocha, featuring industry experts like Agustín Díaz, Leonel González, Jorge David Carrillo, and Luis Yáñez. They shared insights on how to innovate and enhance community living through unique business models. From making real estate accessible to creating engaging experiences, these leaders are redefining what urban living means. If you're curious about their innovative approaches and the importance of integrating community feedback from the design phase, you’ll want to check this out! Read the full post here: https://lnkd.in/gGxv3zVK

We've just published an article that examines whether and how city planning policy responses to COVID-19 in Melbourne, Australia, supported evolutionary urban resilience and transformation towards healthy built environments. We found that most policy actions in response to COVID-19 were consistent with evidence on planning healthy and resilient cities. However, Melbourne's city planning responses to the pandemic prioritised recovery more than positive urban transformation in response to disruption. The findings illustrate the challenges of realising evolutionary urban resilience in practice. We develop recommendations for city planning that prepares for future pandemics and builds resilience to other shocks and stresses. Big thanks to the co-authors: Sarah Bell, Peter Ferguson, Hannah Morrice, Merrick Morley and Sarah Foster. You can read the article here: https://lnkd.in/guQn2Xtp

🚨 Big Question: Are Our Cities Totally Screwed or Can We Actually Fix This? 🚨 In the latest Net Takeaways, BJ and I lay it all out – our cities are staring down an epic urban mess. Empty office buildings, retail spaces abandoned… you name it, and downtown’s struggling with it. So, are we just going to stand by and let these neighborhoods hollow out, or is there a way to bring them back to life? In this episode, we dig into some real solutions. Here’s what we get into: ⚡ Why office vacancies are choking the life out of city centers (and no, they’re NOT bouncing back anytime soon). ⚡ How we can make “Sales Tax Increment Financing” (yep, you read that right) a thing – because retailers need a reason to stick around. ⚡ And yeah, why housing is the backbone of any real comeback story – but only if cities get over their love of red tape and start making things happen. Let’s get serious – it’s going to take gutsy moves from city leaders, developers, and, frankly, all of us. Listen in to hear us shoot straight about the choices cities need to make if they want to stay relevant in a post-pandemic world. 👊 Give it a listen and hit me with your take. Are our cities toast, or do you think there’s a way back? Comment below 👇 https://lnkd.in/gmPXNWVj #UrbanRealTalk #NetTakeaways #CityRevitalization #OfficeVacancies #UrbanDecay #TimeForAction  

Effective urban governance is essential for addressing the complex challenges our cities face. Matt Collins, CEO of the Planning Institute of Australia, highlights this issue: "The challenge is aligning governments both vertically, across state government, and horizontally, between different state governments, to plan more effectively around place outcomes. It's interesting that we still see siloed approaches to delivering in a coordinated fashion, even across different government departments. If we want to be strategic about precincts, we need to find new, joined-up models of governance." The City Leaders Survey underscores the need for cohesive and strategic governance to create sustainable, inclusive urban environments. Discover more about the City Leaders Survey findings at cityleaderssurvey.com.au #CityLeadersSurvey #UrbanFuture #HousingAffordability #UrbisInsights #cityshaper Brenton Reynolds, Caroline Tomiczek, Clare Brown, Emie Pelchen, James Tuma, Kate Meyrick, Mark Dawson, Nathan Stribley, Poppy Wise, Richard Gibbs

Urbis has just released this insightful survey of the sentiments of leaders of city-shaping organisations regarding the opportunities and challenges shaping government and industry priorities. It's particularly interesting to compare the sentiments today versus those of just two years ago - and what's driving that shift. No surprises when it comes to decreasing housing affordability, rising cost-of-living and sluggish economic growth. However, like others, I remain deeply optimistic about the future of cities, especially here in Australia. But I'm also grounded in the realities of what it takes to achieve all their potential: long term, holistic, system thinking and collaboration between government, industry and communities, all of which are part of the answer. Enjoy!

‘Future Cities—City Futures’ 17/25 In weekly updates, we highlight the individual chapters of our recent publication  ‘Future Cities—City Futures: Emerging Urban Perspectives’  published by TUDelftOpen of Delft University of Technology. Special thanks to our co-authors Sabine Georgi and Tobias Just! Please check out: Chapter 17: Transforming Cities after the Pandemic by Sabine Georgi and Tobias Just: “This chapter explains the functions of cities and the shifts within these functions due to the Corona pandemic. Such shifts in functions have already occurred in past epidemics (or other shocks) and led to adaptation measures in urban development. Based on a pan-European survey among real estate professionals, it can be deduced that the current health crisis is likely to result in outward growth rather than re-densification of cities due to the expected higher demand for residential space. Challenges for cities include the redesign of public spaces and the transformation of existing properties as well as the reconstruction of transport infrastructures necessary to restructure, i.e. strengthen, neighbourhoods; this requires closer cooperation between private and public players. For actors in the real estate market, an assessment of the different adjustment burdens and opportunities of the individual asset classes is given.” KEYWORDS #housing; #commercialrealestate; #mixeduse; #15minutequarter. Synopsis: "Future Cities—City Futures: Emerging Urban Perspectives" is about future cities and possible scenarios for city futures. A question central to this book is how to face urban challenges while providing and safeguarding positive outcomes, concerned with the improvement of the quality of urban life: How can future cities be made more liveable, sustainable, and resilient? How can cities continue to provide a wide range of opportunities for all necessities of life? Future Cities—City Futures intends to be a platform for trans-disciplinary urban discourse. Online Version https://lnkd.in/et_CEZgZ Print-on-demand Edition https://lnkd.in/emutgnvV   Veddeler, C., Kuijper, J., Gath-Morad, M., & van der Wal, I. (Eds.) (2023). Future Cities–City Futures: Emerging Urban Perspectives. TU Delft Open. https://lnkd.in/gW4XyFYH

Covid helped us collectively understand just how important parks are to building healthy, thriving cities. Now, demand for more parks and greater access to public spaces in urban areas seems to be higher than ever. But with many municipalities running soaring deficits in the wake of the pandemic, how will North American cities meet this public need? In a recent essay published in Municipal World Magazine, STUDIO tla’s Jeffrey Craft argues that Public Private Partnerships (P3s) are one answer. Citing examples in Toronto, New York, Dallas and Chicago, Jeff outlines how major cities have successfully employed P3s to deliver critical infrastructure and public amenities–specifically parks and open space–for growing cities that cannot afford to build and maintain themselves.   Read the article: https://bit.ly/47oEFaH   #Parks #PublicRealm #PublicPrivatePartnerships #P3 #UrbanDesign #LandscapeArchitecture #Cities