The merits of fixing and repairing cities are unarguable. Planning areas outside of cities is a more fraught discussion. However, based on current urban growth trajectories, we must build new towns even as we improve existing towns and cities.
A quarter of the nation lives in smaller cities, which are often overlooked but more affordable, have great assets, and have room to grow.
Wheatland Plaza in Duncanville is a model for adding value to an underutilized site along a suburban arterial through an efficient mixed-use design.
Basketball fans across America have filled out their brackets using all kinds of analysis, but probably nobody else is using Walk Score to determine NCAA predictions. Here’s how the teams would fare.
We need street network reform, not just housing, to create abundant, thriving, healthy communities.
New towns have always been part of New Urbanism, and the movement should embrace that aspect as a necessary complement to infill, retrofit, and highway transformation.
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
New Urbanism is one of the most
New Urbanism is one of the most influential planning trends of the last few decades, according to April’s 25th anniversary edition of Builder...
Design for safety
Dramatic crime reduction has occurred in two public housing projects designed with new urbanist principles.
Two broad approaches can make safe...
Franklin Street, Portland, ME
In the 1960s misguided officials reamed a neighborhood in Portland, Maine,
Academic centers get off the ground
Programs focusing on smart growth and the New Urbanism were launched at four universities in the past year. Most have stressed education; research...
Great Ideas
Suburbia was a housing program
We used to understand that housing construction was in the public interest
ADDISON DEL MASTRO OCT. 12, 2022
