A town extension of seaside resort took a week to design, but it has been 25 years in the making.
A new book by the eminent urbanist Jonathan Barnett will make you more optimistic about US cities and their growth.
A checklist of physical qualities of walkable neighborhoods was enumerated by Dhiru Thadani in The Language of Towns and Cities.
A proposal could add thousands of housing units to the City center, while making it more walkable and sociable.
The town center at Trilith creates a walkable downtown in the rural/suburban county 20 miles south of Atlanta.
Seeing the world through the eyes of a pedestrian who has to walk everywhere reveals perspectives that drivers never notice.
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
How will our suburbs look 25 years
How will our suburbs look 25 years from now? Reid Ewing, a planner and professor at Rutgers University, predicts that a significant amount of new...
Baxter Village
Baxter Village, a 1,033-acre traditional neighborhood development in Fort Mill, South Carolina, recorded its 1,000th home sale this May, nine years...
Views of Seaside: Commentaries and Observations on a City of Ideas
The Seaside Institute with Andres Duany, H.R.H. The Prince of Wales, Leon Krier, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, Witold Rybczynski, Robert A.M. Stern, et...
High altitude New Urbanism
A new neighborhood in Breckenridge, Colorado, addresses the need for affordable homes for year-round residents and overcomes the difficulties of...
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