City life
The largest city in Northwest Arkansas, Fayetteville is managing growth by incremental development that is regenerating the city’s urban fabric.
A small city with major urban growth, Bentonville, Arkansas, offers a model for expansion that at the edges that preserves nature and historic small-town identity.
Seeing the world through the eyes of a pedestrian who has to walk everywhere reveals perspectives that drivers never notice.
I was in Virginia Beach, on vacation, visiting the Chrysler Museum of Art in Norfolk, when I came across the painting. It is called, simply, Urban Renewal, circa 1960. The New York City artist Lee Loeb was known for cityscape paintings.
HomeTown in North Richland Hills was designed to introduce New Urbanism to the North Texas production-built market. It survived the housing crash and is nearly complete.
Ten transformative ideas provide a blueprint for revitalizing city cores.
Despite arguments that sprawl is pro-family, children benefit from mixed-use, urban neighborhoods.
A quarter of the nation lives in smaller cities, which are often overlooked but more affordable, have great assets, and have room to grow.
Like most historic US cities, Providence declined in the 20th Century but has since become a model for urban revitalization through investment and good planning.
This holiday, experience the magic of a city or town. Let that become part of your family experience. It may change your life.
Viewers can watch Cycling Without Age and other prize-winning urban films online, October 22-30.
A new urban approach yields economic benefits for small cities and towns like Phoenixville.