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Urbanism works for small towns, too
Small towns are increasingly adapting touchstone principles of urban planning like walkability,...
Apr 27 2012 7:31am Gary Toth
Smart growth is a start. But it's not enough.
If we want to win hearts as well as minds, we need to start paying much more attention to...
3 Apr 26 2012 10:57am Kaid Benfield
Eye-opening stats on freeway removal
Patrick Kennedy enumerates the economic and social benefits from Korean highway removal.
2 Apr 24 2012 2:54pm Robert Steuteville
Five strategies for strong towns
For engineering, planning, and housing officials, the mantra should be: Always Add Value.
6 Apr 23 2012 8:02am Charles Marohn
The doctor is in
Chuck compared our current pattern of development to a bonafide Ponzi scheme — California needs an...
Apr 23 2012 7:53am Howard Blackson
Earth Day: Don't forget about cities and towns
The compact, mixed-use neighborhood, town, or city is one of the most effective technologies for...
1 Apr 22 2012 10:24am Robert Steuteville
Get your garden room right
Susan Henderson provides some helpful hints on how to spruce up the backyard as summer draws near.
Apr 19 2012 3:41pm Susan Henderson
Santa Monica gets its first ‘sustainable living street’
Sustainable design, participatory planning, and a few lessons from Europe helped some Santa Monica...
Apr 19 2012 8:06am Greg Kelly
Memo to Wendell Cox: Density and vision are not anti-market
Walkable, dense, Alexandria, Virginia, laid out by George Washington, represents much of what Cox...
3 Apr 18 2012 8:33am Robert Steuteville
Urban systems: Integration and the value of intersections
Clearly, a multi-modal community where we have a choice about how we’re going to get around is...
1 Apr 16 2012 7:49am Hazel Borys
Get to know the awkwardly-named “terminated vista”
This wonky-sounding concept plays a pivotal role in good community design.
Apr 13 2012 9:09am Scott Doyon
Groundhog Day: Wendell Cox calls for six more decades of sprawl
Every so often, the pro-highway consultant pops out to declare all land-use and development...
1 Apr 11 2012 1:04pm Robert Steuteville
Transfer fees for New Urban cultural organizations survive a challenge
A federal agency allows mortgage financing in communities that use private transfer fees to support...
Apr 10 2012 2:02pm Doris Goldstein
Rybczynski is wrong on the Eisenhower memorial
Ike deserves better than Frank Gehry's disturbing tribute to the former president.
4 Apr 9 2012 12:36pm Milton Grenfell
Why Gen Y is causing the Great Migration of the 21st Century
The American Dream is making its next great shift — this time from the suburbs to the urban core...
15 Apr 9 2012 10:18am Nathan Norris
Lessons from the mall and beyond
In designing regional urban retail centers, we need to understand how suburban malls excel.
Apr 6 2012 11:21am Geoff Dyer
Remembering Charles Lockwood, lover of cities
Chris Leinberger recalls the devotion with which his writing collaborator focused on America's...
Apr 4 2012 12:58pm Christopher Leinberger
A walking street that spans the ages
On National Walking Day, an authority on street design looks at how a historic street in Italy...
1 Apr 4 2012 8:51am Allan B. Jacobs
Missing middle housing: Responding to demand for urban living
The mismatch between current US housing stock and the growing demand for walkable urban living can...
18 Apr 3 2012 7:45am Dan Parolek
Assessing our future
Almost all of America's cities have far, far more liabilities than they have revenue that they...
Apr 2 2012 9:09am Charles Marohn
Building a custom, multi-century house for under $80 a square foot
The story of a man who is “subverting conventional building practice with an act of permanence,...
8 Apr 2 2012 9:00am Scott Doyon
Eisenhower Memorial controversy puts focus on urban design
The critique surrounding this project is indicative of the declining status of contemporary ‘...
4 Mar 29 2012 12:25pm Howard Blackson
Life as I’d like it to be
While we’ve made great advances in the civil rights discussion, our suburban development bylaws...
1 Mar 26 2012 3:05pm Hazel Borys
Addressing the planners
I see planners generally making every excuse possible — particularly blaming reticence of behalf...
13 Mar 26 2012 8:21am Charles Marohn
Public process: Don’t botch your online engagement
With questions posed the right way, ideas that rise to the top will be those held to standards of...
1 Mar 23 2012 8:46am Scott Doyon
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