Chicago council unanimously approves an ordinance that would promote ped-friendly uses near transit stops.
A missing middle coding expert explains why planners should understand and use this term.
If Missing Middle Housing is to be built at a scale that will go far toward solving our housing problems, we need regional thinking and this toolkit fits the bill.
Let's put production housing to work solving the housing crisis.
The Railyard in Lexington, Kentucky, is a case study in how a novice developer can take a significant project from concept to construction.
Author's note: My first visit to the Pantheon was fifty years ago. In the decades since, I have returned many times, and with each visit this extraordinary work of architecture and urbanism continues to reveal something new. I have drawn and studied...
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Transit, TOD Ten steps toward autonomous urbanism
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Versatile Katrina Cottage — a dozen types
The Katrina Cottage is one of the most versatile ideas that have come out of the new urbanist Gulf Coast charrettes.
South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford has rescinded the
South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford has rescinded the state’s minimum acreage requirements for schools in an attempt to “bring back smaller community-...
New urbanist design firm Correa Valle Valle of
New urbanist design firm Correa Valle Valle of Coral Gables, Florida, has won two smart growth awards for its charrette and plan for a redevelopment...
Maryland seeks smart growth secretary
In another expansion of his smart growth initiative, Gov. Parris Glendening hopes to appoint what may be the nation’s highest ranking state official...
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