A Necessary Response: The Climate Action Handbook for Urbanists is an impassioned and technically useful guide to taking action at the community level.
The Painted Babies show how well-designed micro-homes can make a statement at the right price.
Most of these cities are built on a grid, an important point, according to the CNU founder and internationally known planner.
Medium-height, medium-scale buildings, slightly larger than typical Missing Middle housing, are the backbone of great neighborhoods. We need to emphasize this scale more.
The towns along 30A in Walton County, Florida, have inspired many New Urbanist emulators, including Cinnamon Shore in Port Aransas, Texas. Cinnamon Shore is a series of walkable urban developments along State Highway 361 on Mustang Island and is not...
Amid a shift to a new website platform, CNU seeks to establish a comprehensive database of new urbanist developments to be used by academics, professionals, and students.
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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
CNU XIV team develops a bold, implementation-focused Congress
Providence, Rhode Island, is not the kind of place that leaves its urban plans on the drawing boards. In the past 20 years, city leaders have freed...
Waiting for the recovery
Some new urbanist developers are shifting to infill projects rather than hope for revival of suburban traditional neighborhood developments.
Making town centers work for businesses and people
Some new urbanists are embracing the techniques of a people-oriented firm called Live Work Learn Play.Why do some new urban town centers fail to...
New Jersey town takes public route to NU
Washington Town Center has overcome bureaucratic entanglements and developer opposition to benefit from a hot
real estate market and become the...
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