• Keys to creating lovable community gardens

    Although community gardens are often the most unkempt area of the neighborhood, there is no reason that they can't be beautiful—and here are some ideas to make them so.
    Community gardens today are far too often the rattiest and most unkempt places in a neighborhood; anything worse would get cited by the city as a public nuisance. Part of the problem is the fact that vegetable gardens have long been considered utilitarian, something worthy of similar aesthetic...Read more

  • Festival spotlights urbanism films from around the world

    Better Cities Film Festival, formerly New Urbanism Film Festival, will screen 81 films on urbanism from 25 countries.
    The Better Cities Film Festival will be taking place virtually, “live from Detroit,” and showcasing 81 films from more than 25 countries—all centered around cities and urbanism—on October 8-11. Films range from one- or two-minute shorts to some that are more than an hour in length. The judges...Read more

  • Housing in Workshop Neighborhoods

    As more residents work from home—even after Covid-19—neighborhoods will include more variety in housing types and the way they are used. Part 2 in a two-part series.
    “Workshop Neighborhoods” are communities where a high proportion of residents work out of their own homes. They tend to be found in walkable places with a high quality of life. They will be neighborhoods of choice as more workers continue to work at home. In the first article of this 2-part series...Read more

  • Creating livable Workshop Neighborhoods

    As more residents work from home—even after Covid-19—they can choose where they live. Many will pick walkable neighborhoods where many people work out of their own homes.
    If you could live anywhere, where would you live? A sizeable number of Americans are now able to ask themselves a form of that question. Even after the pandemic, according to a recent survey by the Harvard Business School, one in six workers will be working from home or a co-working space at least...Read more