Author Dan Piatkowski explains that bicycles, especially e-bikes, are becoming a more important means of transportation and shaping cities as they grow.
Culdesac in Tempe, Arizona, has people-friendly courtyards and a walkable design, which leads to success. The formula is explained in Happy City.
The New York Times recently endorsed sprawl as a solution to the housing crisis, but the writer is confused about the outward expansion of cities.
With the aid of artificial intelligence, researchers examined the extent to which form-based coding is adopted incrementally, often without using the term. The widespread approval of these regulations is good news for proponents of walkable...
The social aspect of community development is important. It’s been said before, but we are, at heart, social creatures. When technology drives us apart, as it has in many ways over the last 100 years, we suffer.
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Better Cities & Towns Archive
A seven-day charrette aimed at planning a new
A seven-day charrette aimed at planning a new downtown district for Sunland Park, New Mexico, has been tentatively scheduled for the week of March...
Ward Davis on the difficulty of TND
Ward Davis, developer of Ruskin Heights, a TND in Fayetteville, Arkansas, explains why many developers have not rushed to do New Urbanism — despite...
APA awards single out compact, mixed-use plans
The American Planning Association (APA) does not officially endorse the New Urbanism, but its recent awards have lauded new urbanist plans. Two...
Georgetown Land Company frustrated by its inability to obtain financing for infrastructure in a 55-a
Georgetown Land Company, frustrated by its inability to obtain financing for infrastructure in a 55-acre transit-oriented development in Redding,...
Great Ideas
Suburbia was a housing program
We used to understand that housing construction was in the public interest
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