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.
An innovative plan in Northwest Arkansas would convert a commuter campus to a 24-hour college community.
The plan for a city of 400,000 leads to the same outcomes as The Original Green, concludes urbanist Steve Mouzon.
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Transit, TOD Ten steps toward autonomous urbanism
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Better Cities & Towns Archive
In the Town of Islip on Long Island New York the chairman of the Community Development Agency propos
In the Town of Islip on Long Island, New York, the chairman of the Community Development Agency proposed last year that modest houses on the order of...
Steve Schukraft, who led the new urbanist team
Steve Schukraft, who led the new urbanist team in Moss Point, Mississippi, beginning with the Mississippi Renewal Forum last October, has left HOK...
Architects’ Guild pursues follow-up charrettes
The Architects’ Guild came into existence three years ago, intent on selling stock house plans, generating other avenues of work for new urbanist...
Michael Mehaffy is working as a project consultant
Michael Mehaffy is working as a project consultant on development at Orenco Station and elsewhere after relocating from England to Lake Oswego,...
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