The plan for a city of 400,000 leads to the same outcomes as The Original Green, concludes urbanist Steve Mouzon.
A Toolkit of the Vermont “Homes for All” initiative, a Charter Award-winning project in 2025, addresses regulatory barriers. Now, the state is creating a catalog of homes for manufactured missing-middle housing.
Don’t accept a one-size-fits-all street design for your city or town, or a highway design for your Main Street. Street designs that fit the context lead to better neighborhoods and communities.
Three urban design projects this month aim to leave a lasting mark on Northwest Arkansas, the site of CNU 34 in May.
Why wouldn't you design every city plan and every suburb with a tightly connected pattern of streets and blocks?
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
Seattle multifamily project 100 percent leased
A perfect Walkscore and LEED Silver certification didn't hurt the lease-up of Wallace Properties' new 107-unit apartment building in the Capitol Hill...
Baltimore County form-based coding
The Baltimore Sun recently urged Baltimore County in Maryland to adopt “form-based zoning.” County Executive James T. Smith Jr. reportedly supports a...
Sustainable Urbanism: Urban Design with Nature
By Douglas FarrJohn Wiley & Sons, 2007, 304 pp., $75 hardcoverAmericans love to celebrate “our robust range of life choices,” Chicago architect...
If governments throughout the US required more
If governments throughout the US required more rational, compact development patterns, they would save 11 percent, or $110 billion, on road-building...
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