RECENT ARTICLES – 2023

A majority African-American city in southern Georgia is redeveloping with the help of a Transect-based, walkable urban plan.

New urbanists can be encouraged by the popularity of Blue Zone research and learn from the many place-based factors to longevity, including walkability, social institutions, and local diet—which can be included in plans to boost quality of life.

The author of Fragile Neighborhoods urges urban planners to take on a vital domestic challenge: Help restore the social function of neighborhoods.

An Olmsted-inspired plan for Lake Wales, Florida, would revitalize the core, promote new growth in walkable neighborhoods, and preserve green space around the town.

The Finley Street Cottages in Atlanta show how attainable housing can be built without subsidy, enabled by incremental zoning reform.

Aldea de Santa Fe, a new urban village in New Mexico, is fully built except for its mixed-use plaza. The time is ripe to complete this community.

Minimum parking requirements are a secret but significant source of carbon emissions from transportation.

Revisiting the 25 Great Ideas of the New Urbanism shows how the movement and world have changed in the last half decade.

The playful genesis of a new walkable urbanism geometry that seeks and explores walking trails in town and at the urban-natural boundary.