Six decades ago this spring a manifesto was published that established a blueprint for car-dependent malls and profoundly changed our communities and the way we live.
Small towns are increasingly adapting touchstone principles of urban planning like walkability, density, and mixed-use in efforts to improve quality of life for residents.
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 Whole Foods market was given the final go-ahead on February 28 to build a store on a 4.2-acre former industrial site — but first had to run the gauntlet of public opposition.
“A woman using her kitchen to make tamales to sell from a street cart,” is something that would never be permitted in an affordable housing project due to management policies and regulations.
The first four commercial tenants have been selected for Storrs Center in Connecticut. The biggest surprise, for those watching the project from a distance, is that one of the businesses is an auto repair shop.
Residents of neighborhoods with a central core of shops and services – a pattern typically found in older, traditional communities – walk nearly three times more often than do residents of whose nearest shops lie along a major arterial road.
At its nastiest and most decrepit, the old and blighted traditional commercial block still outperforms the new, auto-oriented development by 41 percent.
Demographic and market conditions are causing supermarkets in the District of Columbia region and elsewhere to modify their designs and fit walkable neighborhoods.
Residents of neighborhoods with a central core of shops and services – a pattern typically found in older, traditional communities – walk nearly three times more often than do residents of whose nearest shops lie along a major arterial road.
At its nastiest and most decrepit, the old and blighted traditional commercial block still outperforms the new, auto-oriented development by 41 percent.
