City planners ask the public to participate in planning processes, but people are tired of showing up. Here are some of the reasons why. (Photo: Sangga Rima Roman Selia on Unsplash) This is your first ...

Moving away from top-down approaches, contemporary practices embrace more inclusive and participatory models and design processes. Participatory planning, a notion that prioritizes involving the ...

There is great potential to take a bottom-up approach to development planning in the drylands that includes the knowledge, input, and support of dryland communities. To date, pastoralists have had ...

This blog post was authored by Jeff Kuhnhenn, AIA, LEED AP, Director of Architectural Design, Gresham Smith. Over the past 40 years, there has been a slow but radical realignment in how designers and ...

Locally led adaptation (LLA) is increasingly recognized as a critical pathway to building climate resilience by shifting power and resources to local institutions. Despite growing global attention, ...