A look back to look forward in Cincinnati's best-known urban neighborhood.
RiverFront Revitalization connects Omaha to the Missouri River and creates a widely used public space. HDR won a Merit Award in the Region: Metropolis, City, and Town category of the 2024 CNU Charter Awards.
Rebuilding Tremont Street in Mission Hill is a collection of buildings that enhance a neighborhood in Boston. New Urban Partners and Principle Group won a Merit Award in the Block, Street, and Building category of the 2024 CNU Charter Awards.
Finley Street Cottages is a courtyard development on two Atlanta lots that offers an innovative model for missing middle housing. Kronberg Urbanists + Architects won a Merit Award in the Block, Street, and Building category in the 2024 CNU Charter...
The Eddy Street Neighborhood is a mixed-use infill development in South Bend featuring a main street and many housing types. Looney Ricks Kiss won a Merit Award in the Neighborhood, District, and Corridor category of the 2024 CNU Charter Awards.
Casa de Luz is a community-driven, health-oriented urban village on the site of a former meatpacking plant in Austin, Texas. Shambala Corp. won a Merit Award in the Block, Street, and Building category in the 2024 CNU Charter Awards.
Features
Streets Five scenarios that make street transformation possible
Why street design has not kept pace with automotive safety improvements, and what you can do about it.
Transit, TOD Ten steps toward autonomous urbanism
Here's a playbook for municipal leaders and citizens on the road to smart city technology.
Better Cities & Towns Archive
Defeat for another mall owner
Taubman Centers is not the only large mall owner to try to squelch plans for construction of a pedestrian-scale mixed-use center near one of its...
Governing named Ventura, California, City Manager Rick Cole
Governing named Ventura, California, City Manager Rick Cole one of the magazine’s “public officials of the year,” saying he “has excelled in both...
Petition could powerfully promote ‘complete streets’
US Department of Transportation (DOT) officials would consider a change in the way they classify thoroughfares — to the benefit of pedestrians,...
Hillsborough County, where Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company completed
Hillsborough County, where Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company completed a semiregionial plan in 1999, is pursuing a number of new urban plans. The...
Great Ideas
Suburbia was a housing program
We used to understand that housing construction was in the public interest
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