Streets
Carmel, Indiana, has been called the “roundabout city.” It has also built a major downtown from scratch in the last quarter-century. These two facts are related.
Don’t accept a one-size-fits-all street design for your city or town, or a highway design for your Main Street. Street designs that fit the context lead to better neighborhoods and communities.
Why wouldn't you design every city plan and every suburb with a tightly connected pattern of streets and blocks?
The Complete Streets movement has largely failed in practice, but a focus on networks and context could make it more effective.
A relatively small number of locations account for a large share of pedestrian mortality; we know what to do, so let's do something about it.
A postcard sketch competition asked Urban Guild members to draw some ideas in a few minutes during an evening gathering at the Guild Summit in Chattanooga in late October. The members include architects, urban designers, and other urbanists.
The key to safer and more pleasant streets that add value to downtowns is to slow traffic.
The most storied US highway, also known as America's Main Street, inspired filmmakers to discover New Urbanism. The centennial of Route 66 is an opportunity to celebrate place in the heartland.
We need street network reform, not just housing, to create abundant, thriving, healthy communities.
The Adaptation Village offers a twist on the street grid, consisting mostly of slow-speed, shared-use mews.