RECENT ARTICLES – 2017

After many decades of financial bias in favor of single-use buildings, the pendulum has begun to move back toward mixed-use and its superior convenience.

Public housing in the form of complete or partial neighborhoods started with HOPE VI and became standard practice, impacting the lives of people in cities and towns across America.

Your view on the urban investment of today may depend on where you crop the storyline.

Hands-on process is changing the planning and development culture of San Marcos, a suburban Texas municipality.

More and more people are appreciating that architecture and urban design of streets and public spaces have the power to connect, engage, and inspire all of us.

The Choice Neighborhoods development brings order to a city sector laid out in squiggly postwar cul-de-sacs. Newly redesigned streets lead directly to shops, transit, and other services.

These items are the sum of innovations by colleagues and reinforce practices that have successfully entered the mainstream.

A recently released nationwide study strongly correlates greater transportation "modal diversity" with better health for the population as a whole.

Reimagining the Civic Commons was launched in Philadelphia, and similar strategies are now being applied to five US Cities.