The 12-foot-wide Blue Line Rail Trail was originally designed to provide emergency access to light rail stations along Charlotte’s Blue Line.
“However, since the Blue Line began operating in late 2007, the Rail Trail has been added onto,...
Cape Cod is desperately in need of housing diversity. Combining ‘visual preference’ with ‘missing middle’ housing types could point the way.
Amherst, New York, is a municipality to watch for those who are tracking suburban retrofit—the idea of re-purposing automobile-oriented suburban areas for new uses in the 21st Century. Amherst is the largest suburb in the Buffalo region, and home to...
CNU led visioning sessions sponsored by US DOT in four cities in 2016, representing a landmark recognition of the wrongs committed in the name of in-city highway building.
As a Southern beach town, Seaside is neither utopia nor stage set. Its great achievement is in demonstrating an alternative to two generations of American sprawl.
YIMBYtown is a movement, functionally adjacent to CNU, that focuses on how to build more housing in urban places. YIMBY and CNU have complementary roles in urbanism.
Features
Transportation 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.
Transportation 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
Opticos is Excited to Announce Our New Missing Middle Housing Website!
MissingMiddleHousing.com is a new online resource dedicated to helping planners, architects, and builders implement a diverse range of housing types...
The latest subdivision regulations in Johnson City, Tennessee,
The latest subdivision regulations in Johnson City, Tennessee, allow streets of 24 feet curb to curb, according to Eric Thomas Iversen, the head of...
Downtown Cleveland: Ohio’s new residential address?
The Avenue District and the redevelopment of the Flats may produce housing at opposite ends of downtown.
Also in Atlanta, a 28-acre infill new urban
Also in Atlanta, a 28-acre infill new urban project called Glenwood Park announced that its first retail tenants — a coffeehouse and a Latin...
Great Ideas
25 great ideas of the New Urbanism
The New Urbanism is a design movement toward complete, compact, connected communities—but it is also a generator of ideas that transform the landscape. Communities are shaped by the movement and flow of ideas, and the New Urbanism has been a...
ROBERT STEUTEVILLE OCT. 31, 2017
