• Top 10 techniques for educating community leaders about placemaking

    Extraordinary strides have been made in the advancement of placemaking over the past twenty-five years.
    Extraordinary strides have been made in the advancement of placemaking over the past twenty-five years. Think about it. In the years prior, the term “placemaking” wasn’t even in common use by developers, designers and planners. Nor were terms such as form-based code , new urbanism , smart growth ,...Read more

  • Jane Jacobs: Four ways to improve cities and towns

    Influential words from the most influential writer on urban planning in modern times
    The most influential writer on urban planning in modern times, the late Jane Jacobs received the Vincent Scully Prize from the Green Building Council in 2000. Jacobs made a seminal speech offering suggestions for communities on the four topics: Empowering immigrant neighborhoods to develop freely,...Read more

  • HOPE VI and the New Promise of Public Housing

    From Despair to Hope is the story of the transformation of public housing, a story that deeply involves New Urbanism.
    The HOPE VI public housing redevelopment program has cost the federal government nearly $6 billion in the last 15 years. It has been responsible for 111,000 new and renovated housing units — nearly 60,000 of them affordable to public housing tenants — on 240 sites in cities throughout the US...Read more