Beyond the battles between NIMBY and YIMBY, a third option— call it “QUIMBY”—offers a promising path forward.
The largest city in Northwest Arkansas, Fayetteville is managing growth by incremental development that is regenerating the city’s urban fabric.
A small city with major urban growth, Bentonville, Arkansas, offers a model for expansion that at the edges that preserves nature and historic small-town identity.
Lexington’s Warehouse Block is the outcome of 40 years of incremental development. It could be a replicable model for cities to recycle old commercial districts into social centers over time.
The Complete Streets movement has largely failed in practice, but a focus on networks and context could make it more effective.
A remarkable new Harvard study shows the benefits of mixed-income housing in high-poverty areas, using design based on New Urbanist principles.
Features
Streets Five scenarios that make street transformation possible
Why street design has not kept pace with automotive safety improvements, and what you can do about it.
Transit, TOD Ten steps toward autonomous urbanism
Here's a playbook for municipal leaders and citizens on the road to smart city technology.
Better Cities & Towns Archive
Retrofitting suburbs "life or death," article says
A story by Michael Mehaffy and Dr. Richard Jackson in Atlantic Cities argues that the loss of traditional neighborhoods and the decline of activities...
Passion for community related to economic growth
A three-year Gallup study of 26 US cities has found that peoples’ love and passion for their community may be a leading indicator for local...
News flash: High-design pub gets it right
Straightforward articles on New Urbanism in the architectural press have been few and far between — so when one is published this qualifies as a...
19th-century plan inspires South Carolina project
Hammond’s Ferry, a 200-acre traditional neighborhood development (TND) now under construction in North Augusta, South Carolina, builds upon a plan...
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