planning

America would not look the way it does if our metropolitan areas had been built in an era of $4 per gallon gasoline. ... read more »

The Regional Indicators Project is part of CMAP’s innovative GO TO ... read more »

As Americans are rousted from our collective 50-year torpor by ever-rising gasoline prices, newspapers and television stations around the country are finally realizing what we've known for a long t ... read more »

In the first major policy speech of his five-month-old administration, Mayor Nutter presented a pitch-perfect vision on a subject that rarely gets people's hearts racing: planning and zoning...That Nu ... read more »

CNU President and CEO John Norquist lectured at Columbus State University on May 14 to a crowd of over 200. ... read more »

One of the many good things about CNU XVI was that there was so much going on, so many good panels, that it was easy to find interesting topics about which to write. ... read more »

A contentious debate is under way in my hometown, Evanston, Illinois, where developers James Klutznick and Tim Anderson propose building a new condominium tower downtown across Church Street from the ... read more »

Friday’s concurrent session, CNU and the ITE Manual, asked a simple question: Can new urbanists work with engineers to ... read more »

When you dial 911, you don’t really care how the emergency responders reach you, so long as they do. ... read more »

Streetcars aren’t means of moving people as much as they’re tools to leverage good urbanism and help preserve the city’s existing urban form. ... read more »