• Top 10 ‘15-minute city’ list headed by Miami

    Miami has the greatest potential for meeting 15-minute city goals, followed by San Francisco and Pittsburgh, according the first ranking of 15-minute city characteristics among large US cities.
    Of all big American cities, Miami has the greatest potential for meeting the geographic goals of the 15-minute city, according to a recent analysis by MoveBuddha.com . That Miami rose to the top over San Francisco, Boston, Washington DC, and other more obvious choices as 15-minute cities is...Read more

  • Fifty reasons to love urbanism

    Hop on the bus, Gus. Make an urban plan, Sam. Read the report, sport, on 50 reasons to love urban places.
    With apologies to Paul Simon, there must be 50 reasons to build a more walkable city. I have always believed that, although not in those exact words. Arup, a British multinational engineering and consulting firm, has published a report that neatly describes an impressive two score and ten benefits...Read more

  • Form-based codes haven't translated to gentrification, study reports

    Form-based codes have significant benefits, the question is whether these benefits are distributed equally.
    Form-based codes (FBCs) do not appear to lead to gentrification and they are associated with higher levels of multi-unit structures, according to a research paper by University of Chicago professor Emily Talen. In “ The socio-economic context of form-based codes ,” Talen notes that research has...Read more

  • How neuroscience informs architecture and urban design

    A new book covers an emerging field that provides data on human responses to places, leading to new theories on community design.
    Urban Experience and Design: Contemporary Perspectives on Improving the Public Realm , edited by Justin B. Hollander and Ann Sussman, is a collection of academic and scientific papers on cognitive research and community design. The book covers a lot of ground and is not easy to summarize, but it...Read more