The largest city in Northwest Arkansas, Fayetteville is managing growth by incremental development that is regenerating the city’s urban fabric.
A small city with major urban growth, Bentonville, Arkansas, offers a model for expansion that at the edges that preserves nature and historic small-town identity.
Lexington’s Warehouse Block is the outcome of 40 years of incremental development. It could be a replicable model for cities to recycle old commercial districts into social centers over time.
The Complete Streets movement has largely failed in practice, but a focus on networks and context could make it more effective.
A remarkable new Harvard study shows the benefits of mixed-income housing in high-poverty areas, using design based on New Urbanist principles.
Polestar Village brings a health and wellness focus to Radburn-like community that is centered on a community garden.
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
The site of a planned new urbanist
The site of a planned new urbanist town in Ada, Michigan, designed by John Anderson and Philip Bess at a 1999 charrette, has changed hands. Ada...
“SafeScape Principles” for crime prevention
Dean Brennan and Al Zelinka, two community planners who are writing a book on design for safety and crime reduction, report that the New Urbanism “...
It’s not every day that new construction
It’s not every day that new construction gets an award for historic preservation. But in North Carolina, the Historic Preservation Society of Durham...
The redevelopment of a naval base in North Charleston
The redevelopment of a naval base may become the first phase of a revitalization of 3,000 acres in the community of North Charleston, South Carolina...
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