The mixed-use plan for Greensboro, North Carolina, establishes a network of small blocks and the first of a series of neighborhoods for new development northwest of the historic city.
The merits of fixing and repairing cities are unarguable. Planning areas outside of cities is a more fraught discussion. However, based on current urban growth trajectories, we must build new towns even as we improve existing towns and cities.
A quarter of the nation lives in smaller cities, which are often overlooked but more affordable, have great assets, and have room to grow.
Wheatland Plaza in Duncanville is a model for adding value to an underutilized site along a suburban arterial through an efficient mixed-use design.
Basketball fans across America have filled out their brackets using all kinds of analysis, but probably nobody else is using Walk Score to determine NCAA predictions. Here’s how the teams would fare.
We need street network reform, not just housing, to create abundant, thriving, healthy communities.
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
SmartCode Manual now available
In the works for nearly two years, a manual to help people implement the SmartCode was scheduled for release in early October. Titled SmartCode...
Rebuilding for a badly burned Santana Row
Exactly one month before it was to open, Federal Realty Investment Trust’s Santana Row project in San Jose, California, suffered a massive fire that...
Environmentally advanced mixed-use project approved in California
City Council in Rohnert Park, California, approved the $1 billion Sonoma Mountain Village project, hailed as a model of environmentally responsible...
New Jersey first to adopt code for older buildings
New Jersey was the first state to adopt a separate building code for older buildings, according to John Patella, senior policy advisor with the...
Great Ideas
Suburbia was a housing program
We used to understand that housing construction was in the public interest
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