La Plaza District looks like many suburban commercial areas, but a new street plan would enable incremental change into a mixed-use, walkable downtown gateway.
Seabrook, Washington, has created a model for Transect-based town design in an economically challenged region. Seabrook Land Company and Qamar & Associates won the 2026 Charter Award Grand Prize in the Neighborhood, District, and Corridor...
15 winning projects embody and advance the principles of the Charter of the New Urbanism for the 26th year.
To build more affordable 'missing middle' housing, changing zoning laws is not enough. We need small multifamily buildings to be regulated under the residential code.
Allowing more single-stair buildings in the US will positively affect quality of life, public health, infill flexibility, family-friendly units, costs, and even climate adaptation.
The mass-timber Home Office in Bentonville, Arkansas, is built into the street grid with a regional bike-ped trail through the middle.
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Streets Five scenarios that make street transformation possible
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Transit, TOD Ten steps toward autonomous urbanism
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Charter of the New Urbanism book released
New edition now available, with 62 new commentaries
The New Urban Studio, a unit of
The New Urban Studio, a unit of the HOK Planning Group with offices in Washington, DC, and Miami, have hired Oscar Machado and Steven Schukraft as...
Residents of Madison Connecticut voted Jan 26 to buy 42 acres along Long Island Sound from LeylandAl
Residents of Madison, Connecticut, voted Jan. 26 to buy 42 acres along Long Island Sound from LeylandAlliance, which for nearly a decade had been...
Cities need to reduce the obstacles to land assembly
Cities need to reduce the obstacles to land assembly and acquisition in urban neighborhoods, according to a March forum of the Urban Land Institute....
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