RECENT ARTICLES – 2025
Neighborhoods used to be full of local businesses, but they have dwindled over the past century. Maybe it’s time to figure out how to make neighborhoods business-friendly again.
Single-family housing on narrow lots, sometimes called “detached townhouses,” can solve many problems for small-lot, economical, and efficient housing.
IMAGINE: The Future Grand Rapids vision replaces US-131 in the Michigan city with a green, low speed boulevard and reconnected street grid.
Fine art helped to drive the New Urbanism trend toward walkable communities.
Even if you have never been to the Rhode Island city that is hosting CNU33, you are familiar with its streets and culture as a film and TV backdrop.
Author Dan Piatkowski explains that bicycles, especially e-bikes, are becoming a more important means of transportation and shaping cities as they grow.
Regional collaboration in action: The New England model.
Culdesac in Tempe, Arizona, has people-friendly courtyards and a walkable design, which leads to success. The formula is explained in Happy City.
The New York Times recently endorsed sprawl as a solution to the housing crisis, but the writer is confused about the outward expansion of cities.
With the aid of artificial intelligence, researchers examined the extent to which form-based coding is adopted incrementally, often without using the term. The widespread approval of these regulations is good news for proponents of walkable neighborhoods.
Despite arguments that sprawl is pro-family, children benefit from mixed-use, urban neighborhoods.