• Design for new town deals with climate change

    Newfield in Martin County, Florida, provides an upland alternative to coastal real estate in Southeast Florida, while preserving the countryside.
    Development of a new mixed-use town near Stuart, Florida, designed for 15,000-20,000 people, is getting underway. The 3,400-acre Newfield, in Martin County, is being developed by Knight Kiplinger, head of the Kiplinger Media company in Washington, DC. The plan by Marcela Camblor & Associates...Read more

  • Ten environmental benefits of walkable places

    This is third in a series of articles on the advantages of building human-scale cities and towns.
    “The recovery of spawl to vibrant places is literally our generation’s greatest challenge,” says architect Steve Mouzon . There are many benefits to building walkable places, backed up by research and common sense. A research report called Cities Alive by Arup, a multinational engineering and...Read more

  • Climate goals translate to work for new urbanists

    A recent report by Brookings sums up the challenge for US climate goals: It can’t be done without moving much more decisively to compact, mixed-use, walkable development. To quote from their report: “Simply put, the United States cannot reach its GHG reduction targets if our urban areas continue to...Read more

  • Blocks versus barracks: On the missing chapter

    A discussion around the book, Architecture & the City, prompts a critique of prominent eco-urbanism developments on the basis that they fail to create good urbanism.
    Toward the end of John Ellis’s review of my recent book, Architecture & the City: Selected Essays , he suggested: A potential missing chapter in this otherwise splendid book could include examples of sustainable urbanism from other parts of the world. Taking clues from work such as Harrison...Read more