• The housing shortage and structural costs of sprawl

    This graph shows why housing is getting so expensive. Annual housing production in the US plummeted in the 2010s, with annual single-family construction just over half of what it was in the 2000s, according to a report Top Cities for Real Estate Development . Although multifamily held its ground in...Read more

  • A vision for repairing rural sprawl

    Planning an acupunctural approach to repairing a sprawling plan from the 1950s, using urbanism principles.
    Cherokee Village is an odd and interesting community in the Ozarks of north Arkansas. In the 1950s, it was planned as a vast retirement community, platted for a population of 60,000. The road network, golf courses, and reservoirs for waterfront home sites were built, although most of the...Read more

  • Measuring 15-minute city access and inequality

    Nature Cities journal has created an interactive online database showing 15-minute walking and biking access in cities worldwide.
    European cities are closer to the 15-minute city ideal than their counterparts in the US and many other parts of the world, according to a massive study released by Nature Cities journal. Researchers at Sony Computer Science Laboratories created a database of 10,000 cities and measured the access...Read more

  • New urban plan for prominent Amtrak site

    An eight-acre site in New Haven, Connecticut, offers the chance to repair damage by 20th Century urban planning.
    A charrette last week culminated in plans for a redevelopment of a former public housing site in New Haven, expected to add 1,000 to 2,500 new living spaces, mixed-use, and a major square next to an important Amtrak Station. The eight-acre vacant site is now an unimpressive entry to the city for...Read more