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Urban planning, planning, AI and Citizen Participation

  • Subtitle: Global Newsletter - May 2026
Featured article from Global Newsletter May 2026 Written by Marta Lora-Tamayo Vallvé. Professor of Administrative Law, UNED. Department of Administrative Law. Director of the UNED-Lincoln Institute Chair on Land Policy Urban planning is a key component of social policy and plays a very important role in social well- being. How is urban governance changing? Urban governance is currently undergoing a double transformation. On the one hand, traditional regulatory and zoning-based planning systems are increasingly complemented—and in some respects displaced—by strategic, non-binding and...

When AI Decides Who Gets Help: Why Social Welfare needs a ProSocial Reset

  • Subtitle: Global Newsletter - January 2026
Featured article from Global Newsletter January 2026 Written by Dr. Cornelia C. Walther. Senior fellow Wharton/Harvard. This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Artificial intelligence is quietly becoming part of how societies decide who gets help, when, and under what conditions. From benefits eligibility to housing support, from disability assessments to unemployment services, algorithms are increasingly embedded in systems that touch the most vulnerable moments of people’s lives. This is not a future scenario. It is already...