Cities and states offer incentives for developers to convert offices to living spaces, which could have a profound impact on downtowns, employment districts, and office parks.
On the Park Bench explores mixed-use, neighborhood-scale development projects for faith communities in Charlotte, North Carolina, and Pike Road, Alabama.
People don’t live by water pipes, sewers, street lights, and thoroughfares alone. Social infrastructure is what transforms cities from collections of buildings and roads to communities worth caring about.
A photo essay illustrates elements that are critical for a successful 15-minute city.
A growing number of cities and states are reforming their parking regulations, and Donald Shoup, this year’s winner of the Seaside Prize, deserves considerable credit.
The 15-minute city has nothing to do with restricting freedom—it's about restoring freedom.
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
Frijoles Village, a 345-acre TND near Santa Fe,
Frijoles Village, a 345-acre TND near Santa Fe, New Mexico, recently received a loan from Los Alamos National Bank to build phase one infrastructure...
The Poland Public Library in Poland, Ohio, designed
The Poland Public Library in Poland, Ohio, designed by Robert A. Mastriana of the 4M Company (see Sept. 2004 New Urban News), is one of 80 libraries...
D.C. think tank focuses on urban design
Politicians and policy makers are rediscovering how government affects growth patterns and the form of development.
ruce Katz, chief of staff for...
New Urbanism’s ‘Lost and Found’ department (Lost Rabbit)
Neopolis Development LLC in Jackson, Mississippi, is planning to build a 260-acre traditional neighborhood development with a name no one is likely...
Great Ideas
Suburbia was a housing program
We used to understand that housing construction was in the public interest
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