Chicago council unanimously approves an ordinance that would promote ped-friendly uses near transit stops.
A missing middle coding expert explains why planners should understand and use this term.
If Missing Middle Housing is to be built at a scale that will go far toward solving our housing problems, we need regional thinking and this toolkit fits the bill.
Let's put production housing to work solving the housing crisis.
The Railyard in Lexington, Kentucky, is a case study in how a novice developer can take a significant project from concept to construction.
Author's note: My first visit to the Pantheon was fifty years ago. In the decades since, I have returned many times, and with each visit this extraordinary work of architecture and urbanism continues to reveal something new. I have drawn and studied...
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Transit, TOD Ten steps toward autonomous urbanism
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The many methods of bike-sharing
DecoBike's demonstration bike-sharing program in West Palm Beach during CNU 20 "was a smash hit," says Raphael Clemente of that city's Downtown...
The SmartCode cleared a hurdle in Pass Christian
The SmartCode cleared a hurdle in Pass Christian, Mississippi, where it was approved by the planning commission in December. Pass Christian was one...
The Funders’ Network for Smart Growth
The Funders’ Network for Smart Growth and Livable Communities have released “Education and Smart Growth: Reversing School Sprawl for Better Schools...
Philip Bess, director of the graduate program in
Philip Bess, director of the graduate program in architecture at Notre Dame, led a March charrette aimed at planning a mixture of market-rate and “...
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