• Great idea: Traditional neighborhood development

    Creating holistic neighborhoods from scratch was one of the first and still effective strategies of the New Urbanism.
    In celebration of the upcoming CNU 25.Seattle , Public Square is running the series 25 Great Ideas of the New Urbanism. These ideas have been shaped by new urbanists and continue to influence cities, towns, and suburbs. The series is meant to inspire and challenge those working toward complete...Read more

  • How fire chiefs and traffic engineers make places less safe

    Normal, walkable streets are under attack in Celebration, Florida. The battle threatens your neighborhood, wherever you live.
    Of all the urbanism specialists with tunnel vision, fire chiefs, fire marshals, and traffic engineers are probably the most dangerous. And by “dangerous,” I don’t just mean that they’re a threat to good urbanism; they also get people killed, which is exactly the opposite of what they are...Read more
  • Well Tempered City

    Book Review: The Well-Tempered City

    Rose's latest book "is an urgent call to re-evaluate the theory and practice of city-making"
    The Well-Tempered City: What Modern Science, Ancient Civilizations and Human Nature Teach Us About the Future of Urban Life, by Jonathan F.P. Rose, Harper Wave, September 2016, 480 pages, $18.74. The Well-Tempered City is a deeply felt and wide-ranging book by Jonathan F. P. Rose, planner,...Read more
  • Power Strip, Dhiru Thadani

    The Power Grid

    “We know what the appliance is…. now we need to find plugs to connect it to the existing power grids.” Christopher Alexander Since its inception, the Congress for the New Urbanism and its members have in fact been making the plugs to connect to the existing power grids. It started with placemaking...Read more