Hi everyone,

I’ve just graduated with a degree in civil engineering, but my true passion has always been urban planning. For years, I’ve been fascinated by urban design and planning, sustainable cities, and creating better living spaces. I can’t stop thinking about how I want to contribute to this field.

Here’s the challenge: I live in Jordan, where urban planning is nearly non-existent. The urban plans here are poor, and there are no urban planning firms or organizations to apply to. My dream is to help improve this someday, but I still need LOTS of experience.

I’ve considered applying to international organizations like GDCI, but I lack experience in urban planning, which makes it tough to get noticed. At the same time, I need to support myself financially, so I’m thinking about pursuing something more sustainable, like construction management, and that might pull me away from urban planning.

I’m torn because I really want to pursue urban planning, but I feel stuck. How can I gain experience in a field that doesn’t have opportunities in my country? Are there online resources, volunteer opportunities, or remote internships that could help me build my skills and portfolio?

If anyone has advice or has been in a similar situation, I’d love to hear your thoughts.

Hello! I've got a dataset from Spectus that has Home and Work Place locational data. In the columns for each of these locations, the data is in the format of "US.TX.007.950500.1" and I'm not too sure what this means. The "US.TX" is self explanatory as I'm doing locational research in the US and the state of Texas. The next three numbers "007" I think represents the county within Texas, numbered in alphabetical order, so 007 would be the 7th County in Texas in alphabetical order, which is "Atascosa County" which would make sense as that County is part of the San Antonio MSA that I'm researching. However, I need help understanding what the next six digits followed by a period and then a single digit indicate. "950500.1" -- Does anyone know what this number might be indicating? Any advice on how I should go about this would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks y'all

Hi guys. I am a geography student and I would like to hear from professionals like you what you do as a work. 1 what is urbanism 2 the skills you need to have ? 3 how do you work ? Do you make surveys, go on the field or stay in an office. 4 Which type of personality you need to make it work ? 5 what are the difficulty of such a job nowadays?

Why is there such little construction in Los Angeles of new density, particularly high rises?

Many other sunbelt cities have recently experienced explosions of high rises residential construction, even San Diego. These are other cities with pervasive single family zoning, so I don’t think the answer is as simple as that. Does it come down also to local permitting/regulation? What do y’all think?

Are there any problems or opportunities that would make sense for multiple cities to work together on? This would be in the same sense of how nations invest in things like technology and infrastructure, and where perhaps economies of scale would make it beneficial to do so.

As an example, it perhaps makes sense to move food production closer to cities, but the technology isn't really in place yet to make that a viable option in most cases (such as vertical farming). Maybe it makes sense for a collection of cities to tax ourselves together, and work with schools and companies to push that technology forward.

That may not be a great example, but it seems like there are a lot of things that aren't getting funded at the state and national level, that urbanites could pursue on our own. These things could benefit cities directly, and society in general. Education, energy, housing, transportation all come to mind, but I'm not really sure of specific examples where it may make sense to do so. I would love to hear if anyone could see some viable opportunities where this would make sense.

I just completed my undergraduate degree in architecture and am thinking of pursuing a master's degree soon. Which among these has the best scope in the US?

I'm from the US, I only have my own daily experiences to guide me, but I have been thinking on something. If we replaced Stop lines with speed bumps that may offer a starting point for moving towards raised sidewalks for safety.

My logic is that people should be more adherent to the stopping location of the stop sign. The speed bumps will punish driving through them and will cause a more gradual leaving of the stop. It can't possibly stop everyone from driving poorly, but it will incentivize going slower approaching the stops.

Any input on the idea?

What type of street or road is this? On the left are two high speed lanes. On the right is a low speed lane. There is limited access between the high and low speed lanes. Driveways enter the low speed lane which is also for bicycles. Trees and vegetation separate the high speed lanes from the low speed lane. This design in China seems safer than stroads in North America.

I have a choice of Bachelor degrees between Architecture and Urban Planning (as one course) and Urban Planning separately (of cousr with some architecture modules). I don't know what to choose. Perfectly I want to do Urban design in the future. Where would you say there is more Urban design in these two degrees?

Architecture for me might be too specificly focused on building and its construction, whcih is not exactly what I want to do. Though I am very good at drawing. I like cities, I like how they look and judge them by how they look as a whole structure, I don't usually admire separate components as buildings.

And how good is urban planning/ design in the future perspective. Thanks and sorry for some mistakes

I'm currently working as a trainee Urban Planner in the UK and I'm on course to gain an undergraduate level qualification in Urban Planning soon.

I am also considering applying for a masters program in either Urban Design or Planning or a program that does both.

I want to gain a masters qualification that will enable me to work internationally as an Urban Designer or Planner, however I am aware that Urban Planning is more focused on local policy issues and therefore it would naturally be more difficult to work internationally as a Planner without having knowledge of the country's Planning system first.

Therefore, if I want to work internationally, which masters would I be better off pursuing? Would I be better off pursuing a masters in Urban Design or a masters in Urban Planning?

Just a side note, I also have an undergraduate degree in Architecture and have (limited) real life architecture experience.

You can take a left turn in the United States. In Europe, traffic circles (roundabouts) are much more prevalent.

Traffic circles seem to keep traffic moving, but they make you travel further in urban environments, especially if you take the wrong exit.

Is this the case?

In which situations are intersections better than roundabouts?