Urban design

Dealing with urban design

A city known for vision loses its planning chief

Brent Toderian, who gave substance to Vancouver’s EcoDensity Initiative, is out as planning director of the Canadian city.

The cost of imposing urban order

A stunning exhibition reveals what was destroyed by New York’s rigid street grid—and what’s been gained.

Taking the streets message to Washington

CNU's booklet on sustainable street network principles strikes a chord during the Transportation Research Board annual conference.

Fallacies against the grid

Though criticized, the grid has given us places of the most vibrant, lively, and varied character; places of every kind and every use.

The new relevance of New Urbanism

We continue to need, as Jane Jacobs pointed out fully a half century ago, a fluid network of walkable urbanism, as little cut apart as possible by large interruptions.

The next urbanism

The true value of urbanism and technology occurs when we are able to physically connect and share information, resources, ideas, and  empathy with each other.

New Haven road plan tarnishes the TIGER program

A Connecticut expressway replacement is likely to be US DOT's "largest source of embarrassment since Alaska's 'Bridge to Nowhere,'" warns John Norquist.

New York plans an out-of-place boulevard

What’s with the amoeba-shaped green spaces in the boulevard to be built on Manhattan’s Far West Side?

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