Humor
Friday Fun: Can You Name These City Skylines?
Pop quiz hotshot: can you name the city by looking at silhouettes of their skylines?
Friday Funny: City Wants to Skip the Hard Parts of Revitalization
The Onion provides a fake dispatch from a city that wants lobster roll stands and high-end noodle bars on every corner, like now.
Friday Funny: When Subway Announcements Get Real
A McSweeney's post satirizes the obfuscations and euphemisms of public transit system announcements by finally putting things in brutally frank terms.
Friday Funny? The Onion Imagines the Future of the Hit and Run
Satire is supposed to make us uncomfortable. A recent totally fake news report imagining hit-and-run technology for self-driving cars (called the "Culpability-Evasion System") definitely succeeded there.
Urbanism March Madness
The politicking and positioning over who will control the destiny of the land and infrastructure of the country never ends. It's like a dance. Or a tournament.
Study: Oil Prices to Remain Volatile Indefinitely
A new study from the Rational Assumptions think tank provides a completely unsurprising prognostication regarding the future of the oil market.
Tesla to Release Enviro-Premium Tesla-P
Tesla has revealed the specs on the Tesla-P, a new model that will be sure to excite the public realm-conscious urbanite.
Last Night on Family Feud: 'Name the Starchitect'
Last night's edition of the Family Feud gave starchitects a pop culture moment.
Matthew McConaughey to Star in 'The Urban Planner'
Coming soon to theaters near you: Academy Award Winner Matthew McConaughey portrays an upstart urban planner who learns to throw away the old code and embrace uncertainty.
Spell Check Now Speaks Planner
Microsoft announced a big update to the Word spell check dictionary today to include the constantly evolving and often incomprehensible language of planning.
7 Unpopular Urbanists
You know them when you see them—they're the ones ready to suck the winds out of your sails and set you back at least a month, but probably more, of good work and high morale.
Pop Quiz: Can You Tell the Difference Between Tiger Woods and a TIGER Grant?
Test your knowledge of discretionary infrastructure funding mechanisms and one of golf's most famous figures with this pop quiz.
Gov. Christie Hired to Try Reverse Psychology on Bertha Tunnel-Boring Machine
With the Bertha tunneling-boring machine stuck in the mud under Seattle for more than a year, officials turned to a politician known for his ability to stop transportation in its tracks.
Top 5 Ways to Tell You're in 'Big Asphalt'
You are surrounded by parking lots and pavement so vast you can see the curvature of the Earth.
Roadway Interchange or Celtic Knot?
Pop quiz hotshot: Think you can tell the difference between a roadway interchange and a Celtic Knot?
Friday Funny: Your Subway Train Says a Lot About You
Clickhole, the Buzzfeed-style spinoff of The Onion, has produced a listicle of what the New York Subway line you're riding says about your personality. Prepare to learn nothing and laugh a little.
Friday Funny: Infrastructure: 'If Anything Exciting Happens We've Done it Wrong'
The news satire show "Last Week Tonight with John Oliver" gave comic treatment to the country's ever-present, much-neglected infrastructure crisis. It's hilarious and scary. At the same time!
Friday Funny: A Sarcastic List for Why D.C. Metro is the 'Best'
A community user of Buzzfeed has clearly had it up to here with the daily frustrations of using transit on the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority.
Friday Funny: How to Fail at Maps
It's too bad there isn't a map that can lead us to the place where all the fact-checkers have gone.
Friday Funny: Cities Want to Be Cozy
Cities vie for all sorts of distinctions: greenest; friendliest; wealthiest; most innovative. Portland, Maine, is just tickled to bits about topping the "Top-10 Coziest Cities in America." Added bonus: it beat out its regional arch-rival Boston.
Urban Design for Planners 1: Software Tools
This six-course series explores essential urban design concepts using open source software and equips planners with the tools they need to participate fully in the urban design process.
Planning for Universal Design
Learn the tools for implementing Universal Design in planning regulations.
Caltrans
Smith Gee Studio
Institute for Housing and Urban Development Studies (IHS)
City of Grandview
Harvard GSD Executive Education
Toledo-Lucas County Plan Commissions
Salt Lake City
NYU Wagner Graduate School of Public Service
