Beyond the battles between NIMBY and YIMBY, a third option— call it “QUIMBY”—offers a promising path forward.
The largest city in Northwest Arkansas, Fayetteville is managing growth by incremental development that is regenerating the city’s urban fabric.
A small city with major urban growth, Bentonville, Arkansas, offers a model for expansion that at the edges that preserves nature and historic small-town identity.
Lexington’s Warehouse Block is the outcome of 40 years of incremental development. It could be a replicable model for cities to recycle old commercial districts into social centers over time.
The Complete Streets movement has largely failed in practice, but a focus on networks and context could make it more effective.
A remarkable new Harvard study shows the benefits of mixed-income housing in high-poverty areas, using design based on New Urbanist principles.
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
Town-Green of Oakland California is teaming with the National Charrette Institute NCI of Portland Or
Town-Green of Oakland, California, is teaming with the National Charrette Institute (NCI) of Portland, Oregon, on a $180,000 pilot project called...
Complete streets in the Big Apple
Transportation Alternatives, a nonprofit based in New York City, is declaring 2013 the "year of the complete street." The group identifies four "...
Habitat aims to improve affordable housing design
Habitat for Humanity is seeking to raise its design standards through a collaboration with the Institute for Classical Architecture & Classical...
CNU 19: Growing Local a rousing success!
CNU 19 welcomed over 1100 attendees in Madison, many of whom were overheard saying that this year’s Congress was the best one ever.
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