The infrastructure that supports downtowns and walkable neighborhoods features connected streets, growth focused in specific place types, and design based on the rural-to-urban Transect.
Pearl in San Antonio, a Charter Award winner, is becoming the heart of a 15-minute city.
Montclair is a city in the “Inland Empire” of California, built entirely since the second half of the 20th Century, so largely sprawling in its built form. It is also more than two-thirds Latino. The City was connected to commuter rail with the...
The impact of urbanism on day-to-day life may be the strongest argument for change.
Let the ride begin: An image shows how West Palm Beach is a different place three decades after a master plan and code.
Esmeralda Land Company has options on a former lumber mill in Cloverdale, with plans for an educational and cultural community.

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(Introduction to Terminated Vistas, Deflected Vistas, and Layered Vistas) I. Urban Vistas In the practice of urbanism, a host of techniques can...

Close-up of agricultural urbanism

Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company has continued to refine “agricultural urbanism” — the idea “in which all aspects of urbanism are focused on food...

Coffee Creek, a new urban neighborhood in Chesterton,

Coffee Creek, a new urban neighborhood in Chesterton, Indiana, is beginning to gather some construction momentum, nearly four years after the project...

Norfolk’s East Beach on its way to becoming reality

Norfolk, Virginia’s East Beach is at last on its way to becoming a reality. A public/private reclamation of 100 formerly blighted bayshore acres, the...