• The college campus to New Urbanist pipeline

    American college campuses play a major role in young people coming to understand the importance of walkability and bikeability in their communities. For many, living on a college campus is the first time they truly live somewhere with adequate and safe pedestrian infrastructure with services...Read more
  • People enjoying a walkable street

    Preference for walkable communities strong, but young families want a bigger home

    Living in a walkable community correlates to a significantly stronger reported quality of life—and that metric rose during the COVID 19 pandemic, according to a biennial poll on housing and transportation by the National Association of Realtors (NAR). Less favorably for urbanists, two generations...Read more

  • Preserving history, allowing for growth

    A neighborhood in Atlanta establishes a Historic District with land-use regulations that protect the architecture in the front of the lot while allowing extensive development in the back.
    Residents of Atlanta’s Poncey-Highland neighborhood, just east of downtown Atlanta, are looking to the future with an eye to the past. For the past year, neighborhood stakeholders worked together to use the City of Atlanta’s Historic Preservation Ordinance as a tool to create an innovative Historic...Read more

  • How cities and towns can bounce back in the post-pandemic era

    A toolkit highlights the power of land-use and transportation policy in recovery from the devastating impacts of COVID.
    Now that vaccines are rolling out and new COVID cases are dropping in the US and worldwide, cities can begin to get a clearer view of what their world will look like in the post-pandemic era. To prepare for what is next, a great place to start is the Pandemic Toolkit , created by the new urbanist...Read more