The Razorback Greenway is already influencing growth in Northwest Arkansas, but this may be only the beginning. Other regions are taking similar steps.
An academic survey of a Florida traditional neighborhood development shows higher social engagement and better health outcomes.
Carmel, Indiana, has been called the “roundabout city.” It has also built a major downtown from scratch in the last quarter-century. These two facts are related.
A quarter century after the iconic Los Angeles development was launched, a community survey shows high levels of resident satisfaction.
Land use has a profound and largely unacknowledged role in the death and injury of pedestrians and bicyclists, according to researchers. There are two answers—but one is far superior.
Project 3500 pre-designs and pre-permits thousands of affordable housing units on city-owned land.
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
Get to know your fire chief
Cooperation and education are the keys to building human-scale streets and ensuring public safety.
Over the last decade, many designers, engineers...
Beat Kahli, the developer of Avalon
Beat Kahli, the developer of Avalon Park, a 1,860-acre TND east of Orlando, Florida, is taking an unusual approach to expanding the project’s...
Art a force for revitalization
Beginning next week, more than 300,000 visitors will come to Grand Rapids, Michigan, to enjoy and judge visual and performance art for the fourth...
Traffic lessons for communities, from the ever-moving Dan Burden
Dan Burden, doubtless the most constantly traveling traffic-tamer in the United States, carried his narrow-the-roadways message to an unlikely venue...
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