Don’t accept a one-size-fits-all street design for your city or town, or a highway design for your Main Street. Street designs that fit the context lead to better neighborhoods and communities.
Three urban design projects this month aim to leave a lasting mark on Northwest Arkansas, the site of CNU 34 in May.
Why wouldn't you design every city plan and every suburb with a tightly connected pattern of streets and blocks?
“Housing Ohio: Tools for Development” includes something like a starter kit of pre-approved plans, with zoning reforms to make them work.
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
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In a year when new urbanists are bringing historic plans and real optimism to the hurricane-hit Gulf Coast, the fourteenth annual Congress for the...
City bike rental systems
More than 20,000 bicycles are to be made available at 1,450 rental stations in Paris by year’s end. A company called Cyclocity is working with the...
A split-rate property tax that assesses land at
A split-rate property tax that assesses land at a higher rate than buildings can help to encourage infill development and fight sprawl, according to...
Choice Neighborhoods: HUD’s new urban remedy takes shape
Breathtakingly broad in scope, the Obama administration’s redevelopment plan tackles nearly every problem known to afflict city-dwellers.
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