• A European feel in Oklahoma

    The trend of inner-block development is very cool. This sweet little project, called Townsend in Edmond, Oklahoma, is breaking ground with two live-work units, 18 townhouses, and 13,000 square feet of commercial space on about an acre. Austin Tunnell, founder of Building Culture & Apollo, which...Read more

  • Old Town TND recognized for design

    A 360-acre traditional neighborhood development sets new pattern for growth in Columbus, Georgia.
    Old Town, a 360-acre traditional neighborhood development (TND), is partly built within the consolidated city and county of Columbus, Georgia, located on the Alabama border, midway between Macon, Georgia, and Montgomery, Alabama. The older part of Columbus is noted for brick mill buildings and 11...Read more

  • Proposed: A new California city

    California Forever in the Central Valley offers an opportunity to test walkable community-building on a scale we haven’t seen in a century.
    At the first Congress for the New Urbanism in Alexandria, Virginia, in 1993, planning Professor Robert Fishman described the concept of “mass suburbia” taking hold in America in the years after World War II. A synonym is “sprawl.” New urbanists have described the physical characteristics of sprawl...Read more

  • Prices mounting in the Green Mountains

    When protecting nature goes too far.
    Hear “Vermont” and a certain vision passes through one’s head: Green Mountains with bucolic small towns. It comes as no surprise that Vermonters know this and love their scenery. To protect it, they’ve passed some of the heftiest environmental protection and development-regulation laws in the...Read more