In 2014, The Global Grid first published the Top 10 Landscape Architecture Jobs Search Websites ranking. We reviewed that year’s ranking and continued our search for the best job boards and websites to aide in a landscap...

“Infinite Suburbia,” a collection of essays edited by Alan Berger, Joel Kotkin, and Celina Balderas Guzman, challenges the suburban notion that Lewis Mumford once described as “a multitude of uniform unidentifiable house...

“Leisure is the ideal of life.” This alluring ideology promoted by the municipality of Amsterdam as central to the lifestyle of the ‘Dam city dwellers, draws nearly 16 million tourists to the Netherlands each year. While...

In “Ghetto: The Invention of a Place, The History of an Idea,” author Mitchell Duneier forwards a bold and important message: that the “ghetto” as an idea can be a powerful and indispensable tool. Despite the idea’s limi...

We would like to close our celebration of women this month with some wise words from Cynthia Bowen, the current President of the American Planning Association (APA). Cynthia Bowen is the director of planning for Rund...

What impact does environmental design have on safety in our cities was the question addressed in #TheGlobalGrid March Twitter chat. Safety is a core element of a quality urban life. A safe city ensures that all its city ...

“How can we reduce floods, droughts and water pollution?” The United Nations’ World Water Day works to create awareness on the importance of water. Held on March 22nd each year, the United Nations (UN) selects a theme to...

On August 13, 1961, during the height of the Cold War, the East German government built a wall to keep residents of East Berlin from defecting to West Berlin. This so-called ‘antifascist protection wall,’ as it was calle...

Safety is one of the defining elements of a city’s quality of life. It is often measured by metrics of crime rate, number of reported homicides, acts of vandalism and other violent incidents which objectively quantify an...

When you search the Top 100 urban planning and development, architecture, or built environment books on Amazon you may notice the abundance of male voices, male authors. This book list is meant for men and women alike - ...

When I graduated from the Ecole Nationale d’Architecture in Rabat, Morocco, we were a class of 73 students, 68 young women, and 14 young men. That’s right, more than 75% of this group of freshly graduated architects were...

Cities of the future will almost certainly play an increasingly central role in solving some of humanity’s most pressing issues. In “The Well-Tempered City,” author Jonathan F.P. Rose states that “the twenty-first centur...