• A train runs INSIDE your house?

    The video below, produced by Rob Sanders (Road Guy Rob), a journalist with a degree in civil engineering, provides an overview of transit-oriented development (TOD) that is sophisticated and yet engaging to a mass audience. The video covers projects in California and Utah, and focuses on Del Mar...Read more

  • How neuroscience informs architecture and urban design

    A new book covers an emerging field that provides data on human responses to places, leading to new theories on community design.
    Urban Experience and Design: Contemporary Perspectives on Improving the Public Realm , edited by Justin B. Hollander and Ann Sussman, is a collection of academic and scientific papers on cognitive research and community design. The book covers a lot of ground and is not easy to summarize, but it...Read more

  • CNU takes me back to the 1990s

    The opening of registration for CNU 29.Design for Change got me thinking about past Congresses, especially in the light of the $150 fee available for members through March 7. While tracking exact Congress fees from the early years is elusive, the rate is the lowest at least since the 1990s (in 2001...Read more

  • 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