Chicago council unanimously approves an ordinance that would promote ped-friendly uses near transit stops.
A missing middle coding expert explains why planners should understand and use this term.
If Missing Middle Housing is to be built at a scale that will go far toward solving our housing problems, we need regional thinking and this toolkit fits the bill.
Let's put production housing to work solving the housing crisis.
The Railyard in Lexington, Kentucky, is a case study in how a novice developer can take a significant project from concept to construction.
Author's note: My first visit to the Pantheon was fifty years ago. In the decades since, I have returned many times, and with each visit this extraordinary work of architecture and urbanism continues to reveal something new. I have drawn and studied...
Features
Streets Five scenarios that make street transformation possible
Why street design has not kept pace with automotive safety improvements, and what you can do about it.
Transit, TOD Ten steps toward autonomous urbanism
Here's a playbook for municipal leaders and citizens on the road to smart city technology.
Better Cities & Towns Archive
Population declining along metropolitan edges
Population growth at the far edge of American metropolitan areas has plummeted in the past few years.
Dense cities respond to fires faster
An investigation by The Boston Globe found that firefighters respond faster to blazes in Boston and other big cities than they do to fires in many...
Baldwin Park, Columbia Heights, and SmartCode win awards
Photo 1 caption (appears on page 01):The redevelopment of the Columbia Heights Metro station area in Washington, DC, won a Charter Award for 2009....
Smart growth elsewhere
Massachusetts
An executive order, “Planning for Growth,” signed in April 1996 directs state agencies to promote the reuse of existing infrastructure...
Great Ideas
