• The urban dimensions of climate change: Lessons for a New Urbanism

    Reining in sprawl is still the most important first step in transitioning to a more benign kind of settlement, and more responsible planning. Reduction of greenhouse gas emissions is only one of many benefits—but it is a significant one.
    There is an intriguing paradox within the inventories of greenhouse gas emissions per capita—the emissions that each of us generates through our daily activities of moving, interacting, and consuming resources. Those who live in an average settlement in the United States consume and emit on average...Read more

  • Walkable Glenwood Park nears completion

    The new neighborhood by the Atlanta Beltline offers a well-designed, robust mix of housing, uses, and public spaces.
    One of the last parcels is being developed in Glenwood Park, one of the more successful new urban neighborhoods to be built in the last two decades. Curbed Atlanta published a piece about the four-story mixed-use building on the corner of Faith Avenue and Bill Kennedy Way in Atlanta, and it seems...Read more

  • Highway expansion will induce demand, opponents say

    A $500 million widening project for Interstate 5 in Portland, Oregon, would lead to 10 to 17 million additional vehicle miles per year, according to a report in City Observatory . The website posted a series of articles opposed to the I-5 expansion in Portland’s Rose Quarter—an area of the city...Read more

  • Call for the best form-based codes

    The submission deadline is April 5 for this year’s Driehaus Award, to be announced at CNU 27 in Louisville.
    A jury of top urban designers and planners will select this year’s Driehaus Award: highlighting a great form-based code (or codes) that has been adopted in any year in any community in the world. The award showcases what's possible with good zoning and spotlights cities and towns that are pushing...Read more