A Toolkit of the Vermont “Homes for All” initiative, a Charter Award-winning project in 2025, addresses regulatory barriers. Now, the state is creating a catalog of homes for manufactured missing-middle housing.
Don’t accept a one-size-fits-all street design for your city or town, or a highway design for your Main Street. Street designs that fit the context lead to better neighborhoods and communities.
Three urban design projects this month aim to leave a lasting mark on Northwest Arkansas, the site of CNU 34 in May.
Why wouldn't you design every city plan and every suburb with a tightly connected pattern of streets and blocks?
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
In 1748, Giovanni Battista Nolli finished a 12-year
In 1748, Giovanni Battista Nolli finished a 12-year project creating a vertical projection plan of Rome. The two-dimensional plan showed all areas...
The Option of Urbanism: Investing in a New American Dream
By Christopher B. LeinbergerIsland Press, 2007, 224 pp., $25.95 hardcover.
The American Planning Association recently awarded its Outstanding
The American Planning Association recently awarded its Outstanding Planning Award in the “Information Technology” category to an electronic Community...
Federal Realty Investment Trust is considering converting
Federal Realty Investment Trust is considering converting apartments in its Santana Row project in San Jose, California, to condominiums, according...
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