r/urbanplanning↗
Urban planning: The built environment
Urban planning is about making our cities and towns better—looking at the built environment, people, culture, the economy, and nature. This group is for quality discussion about planning topics like land use, the built environment, planning practice and regs, transportation, and community development. This is for high level discussion among professionals, academics, and amateurs... so no low effort meme posts, rants, or spam allowed.
237k subscribers160 posts / mo in Sep 2026 (incl. ~3% by known bots)120 authors / mosince 2008
r/urbanplanning has 237k members. It gets about 160 posts a month from 120 people. Top topics: California Housing Crisis, New York Cities and Suburbs vs Cities.
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- California Housing Crisis0.8%
- New York Cities0.8%
- Suburbs vs Cities0.7%
- Affordable Housing Crisis0.7%
- Pedestrian Cities0.7%
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- Substack
- American Planning Association
- Archive
- NPR
- Streetsblog
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