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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Better Cities & Towns Archive
Evening Rose Town Center broke ground in Talahassee
Evening Rose Town Center broke ground in Talahassee in February, combining new urban design with sustainable building practices. The 120,000-square-...
Fairview live/works face code violations
How to code live/work units, a new building type in the modern mixed-use era, is often tricky. Nowhere have fire and safety codes for live/work units...
New urbanist planner and traffic engineer Swift recoverying in Germany
As of mid-May new urbanist planner and traffic engineer Peter Swift was recovering in Frankfurt, Germany, after suffering a heart attack in Kurdish...
HDR acquires new urbanist firms
HDR, an architecture, engineering, and construction management firm with 3,700 employees, has acquired two small but noted new urbanist design firms...
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