Why wouldn't you design every city plan and every suburb with a tightly connected pattern of streets and blocks?
“Housing Ohio: Tools for Development” includes something like a starter kit of pre-approved plans, with zoning reforms to make them work.
A walking and biking trail is being used as a framework for compact, mixed-use growth in Northwest Arkansas, one of the fastest-growing regions in the US. This tool for sustainable development could apply to many regions.
Beyond the battles between NIMBY and YIMBY, a third option— call it “QUIMBY”—offers a promising path forward.
The largest city in Northwest Arkansas, Fayetteville is managing growth by incremental development that is regenerating the city’s urban fabric.
Features
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
Kenneth Hitchens was identified as being “of the
Kenneth Hitchens was identified as being “of the Baldwin Park development” in the April 2006 article “New charrette system may bring more production...
Major transit-oriented project advances in Atlanta suburb
A form-based code is approved for the City of Doraville’s town center and former GM factory.
Momentum is growing for "green infrastructure"
Momentum is growing for what the US Environmental Protection Agency calls “green infrastructure.” Tom Low of the Charlotte, North Carolina, office of...
Virtual city proposed to advance the Transect
The website will have New Urbanism resources and portals to other sites.
Avirtual city has been proposed to promote New Urbanism (NU) via the...
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