A transformative transportation technology, eVTOLs, is coming soon, which is the reason behind The Village Project.
Cities should be designed around what is most permanent, especially streets, where the stakes of getting them right are highest.
The threat is not modern architecture. It is losing fine-grained urban structure while preserving enough historic vocabulary to make the loss look compatible.
If not for COVID, it would have been the 20th annual Porchfest in Ithaca. The event offers lessons for urbanism.
A series of small, diverse developments in Edmond, Oklahoma, is building on the idea of inner-block urbanism.
“Amenity” is not a neutral description. It is an accounting decision—and Pensacola shows what a wider ledger can build.
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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
Wanted: architects trained in placemaking
University architecture schools need a new emphasis on contextual urbanism, vernacular and classical architecture, and a Modernism that supports the...
Leland Speed has stepped down as executive director
Leland Speed has stepped down as executive director of the Mississippi Development Authority, a position in which he worked on the redevelopment of...
Organization News
Here’s your opportunity to contribute to CNU’s list of top highway-to-boulevard prospects. America’s highway-building era brought elevated freeways...
Federal Small Business Administration loans support sprawl,
Federal Small Business Administration loans support sprawl, according to a lawsuit filed by environmentalists. Friends of the Earth and the Forest...
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