La Plaza District looks like many suburban commercial areas, but a new street plan would enable incremental change into a mixed-use, walkable downtown gateway.
Seabrook, Washington, has created a model for Transect-based town design in an economically challenged region. Seabrook Land Company and Qamar & Associates won the 2026 Charter Award Grand Prize in the Neighborhood, District, and Corridor...
15 winning projects embody and advance the principles of the Charter of the New Urbanism for the 26th year.
To build more affordable 'missing middle' housing, changing zoning laws is not enough. We need small multifamily buildings to be regulated under the residential code.
Allowing more single-stair buildings in the US will positively affect quality of life, public health, infill flexibility, family-friendly units, costs, and even climate adaptation.
The mass-timber Home Office in Bentonville, Arkansas, is built into the street grid with a regional bike-ped trail through the middle.
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Streets Five scenarios that make street transformation possible
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Transit, TOD Ten steps toward autonomous urbanism
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Better Cities & Towns Archive
Given a choice, buyers will come
New study sends message to developers and public officials: there is a market demand for new compact development in Southeastern Pennsylvania....
Stern, Scott Brown, and Barnett win Athena Awards
The new CNU tradition of presenting Athena Awards to pioneers who have laid the foundation for New Urbanism will continue at CNU XV in Philadelphia...
Rebuilding for a badly burned Santana Row
Exactly one month before it was to open, Federal Realty Investment Trust’s Santana Row project in San Jose, California, suffered a massive fire that...
West Bend Village
Editor’s note. This is the first in a series of articles that will explore the economic realities behind new urbanist development projects.
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