• Great idea: Sustainable urbanism

    The trend toward complete communities shapes the debate on sustainability and environmentalism, and vice-versa.
    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

  • Ten freeways in need of transformation

    From Pasadena, California, to Buffalo, New York, cities in this report have the chance to remove a blight and improve prosperity, health, and sustainability.
    CNU's fifth biennial report, Freeways Without Futures 2017 , identifies the ten worst urban highways in America, each of which could be removed to fight pollution, ease traffic, and improve walkability and health. Today, much of this burdensome infrastructure is reaching the end of its initial...Read more

  • Affordable, alternative, and family-friendly urban lifestyles

    Urban living with kids, part two: Creative living arrangements offer urban lifestyle options for families with children.
    In a previous post , I discussed how affordable urban living for millennial families with children is poised to become one of the largest market demands in the near future. Moreover, as these urban millennials with kids get priced out of the major metropolitan cities, they are now beginning to...Read more

  • How countryside becomes sprawl in four steps

    So many rural places have been incrementally destroyed by rural sprawl. You see it on the outskirts of metro areas and off of Interstates and other highways from coast to coast. Most communities don't see it happening until it is too late. To help explain this incremental erosion of rural land, I...Read more