urban development

While light rail systems here in Brazil are usually seen as a novelty dating from the 2010s onward, the city of Campinas made a brief experiment with this form of urban transit at the beginning of the 1990s. The mayor at the time, Jacó Bittar, wished to build such a system, and obtained the help...

So OTL, Los Angeles became the center of Southern California, becoming the second largest city in the US by economic output and population. While San Diego has carved out its own niche in the defense industry and technology centers, it is definitely the junior city compared to Los Angeles. So...

The older cities are easy to figure out bit I am more curious about newer cities like Dallas, Houston, LA, Phoenix, and Denver, or any other city that matured when cars were dominate. The suburban sprawl would be totally different in Houston especially. Would cities be more like their older...

Idea totally stolen from Wolfneuron's thread in Chat ( What does your ideal city look like ) but applied to a different context : We're in the late 19th century, the power of coal, oil and gas has been harnessed, and electricity is starting to show its potential. Populations are growing faster...

What are some examples of cities that have all the necessary resources, location etc. to be a major city, but, for whatever reason, never developed into one? They don't necessarily have to be small towns right now, just places that could have been much larger if history had gone differently...

Watching the work of Cerda in Barcelona and Haussmann in Paris in the second half of the XIXth Century, and their impact on the development of local populations and transports, whereas other cities were content with gradually changing bits and bobs here and there and expanding on the periphery...

In the UK, the Green Belt policy came into force in the late '40's, with the purpose of quelling the growth of its largest cities through urban sprawl. Today, the green belt covers roughly twice as much land as all of the UK's urban areas combined. How different would the UK have been without it?