La Plaza District looks like many suburban commercial areas, but a new street plan would enable incremental change into a mixed-use, walkable downtown gateway.
Seabrook, Washington, has created a model for Transect-based town design in an economically challenged region. Seabrook Land Company and Qamar & Associates won the 2026 Charter Award Grand Prize in the Neighborhood, District, and Corridor...
15 winning projects embody and advance the principles of the Charter of the New Urbanism for the 26th year.
To build more affordable 'missing middle' housing, changing zoning laws is not enough. We need small multifamily buildings to be regulated under the residential code.
Allowing more single-stair buildings in the US will positively affect quality of life, public health, infill flexibility, family-friendly units, costs, and even climate adaptation.
The mass-timber Home Office in Bentonville, Arkansas, is built into the street grid with a regional bike-ped trail through the middle.

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Return of the neighborhood hardware store

In 2003, in Washington’s Logan Circle, Gina Schaefer opened what she believes was the first new neighborhood-scale hardware store in the nation’s...

The comforts of home: Mixed-use projects have become a consumer home base

 When Liberty Center opens in Cincinnati next fall, it will leverage its full-scale mixed-use offerings—such as a CineBistro theater, lofty lineup of...

First a 2,300-acre nature preserve — the Anne

First a 2,300-acre nature preserve — the Anne Springs Close Greenway — was established to protect the old farming and textile town of Fort Mill,...

Obama on sprawl

“I’d like for us to invest in mass transit because potentially that’s energy-efficient. I think people are a lot more open now to thinking regionally...