A new book by the eminent urbanist Jonathan Barnett will make you more optimistic about US cities and their growth.
A checklist of physical qualities of walkable neighborhoods was enumerated by Dhiru Thadani in The Language of Towns and Cities.
A proposal could add thousands of housing units to the City center, while making it more walkable and sociable.
The town center at Trilith creates a walkable downtown in the rural/suburban county 20 miles south of Atlanta.
Seeing the world through the eyes of a pedestrian who has to walk everywhere reveals perspectives that drivers never notice.
The Sundial Building is nearing completion in Minneapolis, and architect Marques King has posted images and some of its features on LinkedIn. The building features a cool rainwater collection system that recycles approximately 90,000 gallons of...
Features
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Better Cities & Towns Archive
Out in El Paso, they reshape downtown
Voters in El Paso, Texas, overwhelmingly supported $473 million in “quality of life” bonds that will fund city parks and cultural venues. “...
The new director of planning for the District
The new director of planning for the District of Columbia is well known to new urbanists — Harriet Tregoning is the former secretary of the Maryland...
Yale in New Haven: Architecture & Urbanism
By Vincent Scully, Catherine Lynn, Erik Vogt, and Paul Goldberger Yale University Press, 2004, 406 pp., paperback $45. How do you judge whether...
A new partnership has been established between
A new partnership has been established between TND Advisors LLC, an affiliate of the Traditional Neighborhood Development (TND) Fund, and Hillman...
Great Ideas
Washington flips the switch on parking reform
State legislation takes a new approach to removing parking mandates—one that is far more comprehensive.
ROBERT STEUTEVILLE JUL. 25, 2025
