Philadelphia, St. Louis, and Chicago are all looking at converting railroad corridors into parks. New York's success with the High Line is an inspiration.
The mayor of Ocean Springs, an advocate of new urbanist plans for her city, pledges to help northern Mississippi communities rebuild after tornadoes and floods.
Alleys—or lanes, as they're called in Canada—are a resource increasingly being put to use by Vancouverites. Groups in that city are collaborating on a laneway market.
It’s been just a few months since Rahm Emanuel assumed the mayoralty in Chicago, and already pedestrians are beginning to feel the Mayor’s presence on city streets.
People yell "we love your porch!" to a couple who added a front porch with hardwood floors and posts to the front and side of a 1950s raised ranch in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York.
The squares laid out by James Oglethorpe as part of his 1733 plan for Savannah, Georgia, are doing fine, and the city itself is becoming more bike-friendly, a visitor reports.
