Artspace demonstrates the diversity of strategies for addressing America’s affordable housing problems. In some cases, they are the lynchpin of downtown revival.
Jersey City is showing how to rapidly transform public space to serve a wide range of users, contributing to its reputation as a livable city.
Nationally recognized Culdesac Tempe is living up to its hype—the question is to what extent cities will get out of the way to allow this to happen elsewhere.
Founded on a solid design framework, the North Downtown Athens plan extends the city's heart with mixed-use, walkable, affordable development.
Urbanists must use the fundamentals of construction to build affordably in an age of soaring housing costs and interest rates and avoid “cheap-washing.”
Setting the stage for, and learning from Tactical Urbanism.
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
Redevelopment plan approved for Dadeland Mall
Dadeland Mall in the Miami suburb of Kendall is not about to be boarded up. Business is good, and the mall and its surroundings enjoy status as a “...
The Charrette Handbook:
By the National Charrette Institute, principal authors Bill Lennertz and Aarin LutzenhiserAmerican Planning Association, 2006, 208 pp., paperback $39...
Congress covers New Urbanism basics
The Congress for the New Urbanism prefaced its ninth annual congress with a daylong series of lectures and discussions by luminaries in the new...
Sales off to a good start
Sales have begun at three of the eight projects profiled in this report, and so far the consumer response has been positive. Washington Town Center...
Great Ideas
Suburbia was a housing program
We used to understand that housing construction was in the public interest
ADDISON DEL MASTRO OCT. 12, 2022
