“Location, location, location,” has long been a real estate mantra. Once a property has been identified in a market with enough growth and demand, the next step is entitlement and permitting.

Once a housing project has passed legal hurdles then the quest for permits can begin. This is the fourth in a series on the housing development process in the United States. You can go to the third ...

Whether the process of urbanization is harnessed and managed, or allowed to fuel growing divides, will largely determine the future of inequality, says UN DESA’s World Social Report 2020. For the ...

In theory, urban planning is a process of elaborating solutions that aim both to improve or requalify an existing urban area, as well as to create a new urbanization in a given region. As a discipline ...