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Your City Planner explores how cities work and how people experience them across every scale of urban life. From sidewalks and buildings to infrastructure, policy, and the intelligent systems now shaping real-time decision-making.
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The platform translates complex urban dynamics into clear, practical insights for city leaders, planners, and civic organizations who are being asked to move faster than their institutions were designed to, often without clear guidance on governance, workforce impact, or public trust.
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While much of the current focus examines how cities are integrating artificial intelligence, data, and emerging technologies, the core lens is broader: how decisions get made inside complex urban systems, and how those decisions shape daily life, economic access, and public confidence.
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A central premise runs throughout the work: in cities, technology is rarely the hardest part. Leadership, governance, and people are. When innovation is treated as a procurement exercise rather than a strategic choice, cities risk widening inequities, straining staff capacity, and undermining trust.
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Your City Planner is not about hype or futurism. It is about grounded, values-driven decision-making for cities that want change to strengthen, not destabilize, the communities they serve.​​​​
Your City Planner was founded by urban planner and writer Claudia Huerta, whose work examines how cities grow, adapt, and sometimes fail; and what it takes to move them forward more thoughtfully.
Claudia grew up in San Diego and has completed two “tours” in New York City, with a brief layover in Madrid. She holds a bachelor’s degree in economics and Spanish literature and a master’s degree in urban planning from Columbia University. Her perspective blends West Coast pragmatism with East Coast urgency, with a deep interest in how urban systems shape economic access and daily life.
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Her writing has appeared in Progressive Planning, The New Planner, the San Diego Planning Journal, Gender, Place & Culture, the Eno Center for Transportation, and Urban Magazine. She covers topics ranging from the lived experience of cities to the systems and institutions that power them.
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In addition to her writing, Claudia serves on the San Diego County Regional Airport Authority Audit Committee, is a board member of the San Diego Chapter of Latinas in Tech and the San Diego North County Economic Development Council, and serves on the Advisory Council for the Center for Creative Land Recycling. She contributes to public conversations on the future of cities through writing, speaking, and advisory work.​​​