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.
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Curtis Park West plan submitted
The land use plan for Curtis Park West, one of the first new urbanist neighborhoods proposed on a “brownfield,” inner city site, was presented to the...
The Board also authorized Board members Jim Murley
The Board also authorized Board members Jim Murley and Stephanie Bothwell to refine the Draft Chapter Handbook with the goal of reducing financial...
Keith Covington has launched Third Coast Design Studio,
Keith Covington has launched Third Coast Design Studio, a Nashville-based planning, urban design, and architecture practice. Covington formerly...
End of ‘fossil-fuel fiesta’ will shake up planning, Kunstler tells CNU
New urbanists will have to work on a smaller scale and abandon greenfield projects in the future, author James Howard Kunstler predicted in a speech...
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