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Pub shed: Mapping your five minute stumble distance

Here's a novel use of ped shed analysis for those of us who enjoy throwing back a few pints every now and again.

Part One of a series on New Urbanism begins by identifying the movement’s many strands.

A complicated legacy: Just how Jane would like it

Jane Jacobs, Tea Partier? On her birthday and six years after her death, there are many facets to her persona and legacy.

What urbanists learned from Jacobs

Thanks to Jane Jacobs, “observational urbanism” has steadily gathered momentum for five decades. We need it to grow stronger still.

The origins of the Congress for the New Urbanism

Part Two recalls a small group of thoughtful, committed urbanists who changed the course of American planning.

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News and Opinion Online

A test for the Eisenhower Memorial

Milton Grenfell, Better! Cities & Towns

Thousands of years reveal the qualities that make a memorial successful. Frank Gehry’s design lacks them.

Wed, May 23rd 2012 8:45am

Amanda Burden is reshaping New York

The New York Times

Mayor Bloomberg's detail-minded planning planning director will have rezoned 40 percent of the city by the end of 2013.

Tue, May 22nd 2012 8:14am

New Haven officials: our road project is good enough

Better! Cities & Towns

Local planning and development administrators say the Rt. 34 project has been misrepresented. “Complete Streets” advocates disagree.

1 Mon, May 21st 2012 11:31pm

AZ DOT: Dense urbanism cuts traffic congestion

Better! Cities & Towns

Compact, mixed-use development reduces automobile use and disperses traffic, according to a study of the Phoenix area.

Mon, May 21st 2012 1:12pm

New Urbanism's pivot point

Joe Nickol, Better! Cities & Towns

We have the great opportunity to leverage what we have learned in the controlled, lab-like setting of new towns and begin the task of regenerating our cities, towns, and neighborhoods.

Mon, May 21st 2012 11:42am

The value of value capture

Charles Marohn, Better! Cities & Towns

Infrastructure should not be a catalyst for growth but something that emerges in support of productive patterns of development.

Mon, May 21st 2012 9:24am

LA, land of the car, is warming to bikes

The New York Times

Nearly 40 miles of bike paths and bike lanes have been established in Los Angeles in the past 18 months, with more to come.

Sun, May 20th 2012 8:15pm

Cycling forward: National Bike To Work Day

Mike Lydon, Better! Cities & Towns

Countless organizations and city departments will be in the streets of America this morning, freely distributing carbs, caffeine, and bike maps. This can only mean one thing: It’s National Bike To Work Day.

Fri, May 18th 2012 7:02am

Study: Car-sharing squeezes carbon emissions

Robert Steuteville, Better! Cities & Towns

Car-sharers could reach, under the most optimistic scenario, 20.3 million people, according to a RAND Corporation study.

Thu, May 17th 2012 11:41am

Jane Jacobs-style density is best for cities, Florida says

Better! Cities & Towns

Ten years after publishing of The Rise of the Creative Class, the prominent city-booster says high-rises are “vertical suburbs” and we need “urban environments that stir the spirit.”

6 Thu, May 17th 2012 8:38am

Density without high-rises?

Edward McMahon, Better! Cities & Towns

What can cities and towns do to achieve higher-density without sacrificing the aesthetic beauty that accompanies human-scale, walkable neighborhoods?

6 Wed, May 16th 2012 12:26pm

New Haven mayor butts heads with new urbanists

Better! Cities & Towns

UPDATED: Criticism of a flawed expressway replacement plan fails to sway Mayor John DeStefano. But there may be help from Montreal.

1 Wed, May 16th 2012 9:30am

Addressing ‘missing middle’ housing in the Queen City

Dan Parolek, Better! Cities & Towns

A form-based code would bring residents back to depopulated neighborhoods in Cincinnati.

3 Tue, May 15th 2012 11:04am

Uninhabitable high-rises

Steve Mouzon, Better! Cities & Towns

My tweet-cast of Léon Krier's address to the Congress for the New Urbanism Saturday morning created a small firestorm on Twitter.

1 Tue, May 15th 2012 6:50am

Headlines

Tea Party Republicans Take Aim at Bike-Ped Funding in Conference

Streetsblog Capitol Hill

Murphy’s Law: The Invisible Man

Urban Milwaukee

Bike Registration Laws: A License to Profile?

Streetsblog Capitol Hill

Transportation bill being finalized, window closing quickly! Call your rep and senator

T4America

Today’s Headlines

Streetsblog Capitol Hill

The Micro City Beautiful: Programming Drives Investment (Part 2)

Strong Towns

Populate or Perish?

New Geography

Separate But Eco: Livable Communities for Whom?

Streetsblog Capitol Hill

Metropolitan areas at the heart of America’s emerging majority-minority population

UrbanCincy

Can Liverpool Win a Place Back on the Global Stage? by Tim Clark

Urbanophile

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Needed: An expanded campaign to tear down urban freeways

A new report from the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy shows freeway removal delivering benefits on three continents.

Big steps for El Paso

On the far west of Texas, officials are showing how to bring back historical patterns of transit-oriented, walkable neighborhoods in a low-density, spread-out city.

Living in sprawl cost throusands extra per year

In 10 years, household transportation costs rose nearly three times as much in heavely car dependent locations as in compact, transit-served neighborhoods.

How a Wisconsin suburb is making itself bike-friendly

Fitchburg revised its SmartCode and then did something extra for cyclists.

Thinking like a farmer boosts tax revenue

On Tax Day, here's an analysis on property taxes, the kind of taxes that cities and towns rely on most. Density and mixed-use — not parking lots — yield the most revenue by far.

A defining moment for gated developments

The recent slaying of Trayvon Martin in Sanford, Florida raises important questions about the safety and benefits of gated communities.

Transit oriented development in Connecticut may rely on 'value capture'

Regional planners envision a finance system in which the state helps municipalities, and vice versa.

New book: Sustainable Transportation Planning

In his new book, Sustainable Transportation Planning, Jeffery Tumlin presents a range of useful tools that communities can use to strengthen their transportation infrastructure.

New book: The Good City

The Good City is a series of short, vivid essays on what Allan Jacobs, former San Francisco planning director and Berkeley professor, has seen or done in locales across the world.

Ohio city approves downtown form-based code

Dublin, Ohio adopts a progressive form-based code to regulate growth along the city's Bridge Street Corridor.

Report on maintaining an affordable place for artists

An artist cooperative in Minneapolis continues to breath new life into the city without displacing local residents.