Toward a more inclusive urbanism, news of suburban population shifts, how the Kochs target transit, and why AVs might break cities
Many cities are growing faster than they have since the 1940s as Americans rediscover the joys of human-scale neighborhoods, but their expansion is constrained by sprawl.
A transit-accessible infill development includes a variety of housing types geared to improving the economics of urban living.
When drivers slow down to 20 mph or below, they are less likely to hit people and much less likely to seriously injure or kill people if they do hit them—that's one insight that Dutch designers and engineers learned when they began to implement...
Tregunnel Hill in Cornwall, England, proves that the principles used in Prince Charles's Poundbury are replicable.
A revolutionary method of direct human responses to imagined forms, performed on the actual site, reveals a vast amount of useful design information not otherwise available.
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
Classicist group changes its name
The Institute of Classical Architecture & Classical America — a name that some people always considered a little clunky — is giving way to "...
How Seattle got a partly ‘European-style’ street
The City wanted to let pedestrians and vehicles mix in a somewhat gritty setting. ADA requirements and corporate attitudes complicated the effort.
Inroads on the right
Increasingly embraced by mainstream business groups such as the Urban Land
Institute, CNU now has an endorsement from one of the staunchest...
Critics deride New Jersey's offer to revive an unfinished mall
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie's offer of financial help to complete and expand the reviled Xanadu Meadowlands shopping mall strikes many...
Great Ideas
New urban design for an African village
The principles of neighborhood structure and buildings that relate positively to public space resonate with traditional Zulu culture and village geography.
ROBERT STEUTEVILLE JUL. 5, 2017
