RECENT ARTICLES – 2023
A new town in Alabama is a model for how community planning and institutions can connect people.
A study looks at hierarchical and interconnected street networks, concluding that you can't have effective mixed-use without street grids, which provide many benefits.
Railyard Park in Rogers is the central public space the city has always lacked—providing a place for diverse activities and people, connected to a regional trail network.
First+Main Films and the Better Cities Film Festival are telling civic stories across America in film, with the goal of changing cities. It shows the power of storytelling in urbanism.
A new urbanist development named after a literary hometown focuses on the arts and much-needed public space.
South Carolina development offers convincing lessons for how builders, developers, and architects can create a successful new town.
Walkable, mixed-use planning is the key to getting young people outside again and enabling their independence.
Urban designers and architects are astounded by a charming, small, mid-block development in Charleston that is 2-4 stories tall yet is comparable to the gross density of Manhattan.
A nationwide study of more than 1,000 street sections sides with urbanists and planners in the long-standing battle with traffic engineers over the benefits of narrow travel lanes in urban places.
When you see news about the infrastructure around us, remember your own personal budget: how would you wisely spend your resources of time and money?
Three landmark developments since the 1980s have transformed the city's relationship to the water.