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.
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Transit, TOD Ten steps toward autonomous urbanism
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Ellen Dunham-Jones was hired to direct the
Ellen Dunham-Jones was hired to direct the architecture program at Georgia Tech in Atlanta. Dunham-Jones, a charter member of the Congress for the...
CNU’s project to create new guidelines for
CNU’s project to create new guidelines for major streets is producing new documents. These will be available at the CNU website as they are completed...
A duplex that looks like a single house
In two developments within the past year, Wolff Lyon Architects of Boulder, Colorado, has produced two-family houses that have two fronts. As...
Large TOD moves forward in Hawaii
A large-scale transit-oriented development (TOD) is being planned about 15 miles northwest of Honolulu, Hawaii. The proposed development, called Ho’...
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