Hope Legacy Project offers a revitalization plan, focusing on pedestrian infrastructure for a Rhode Island village.
The late architect and urban theorist wrote a to-do list for city founders, mayors, administrators, designers, settlers, and landowners.
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Leon Krier, a giant in architecture and urbanism and one of the intellectual founders of the New Urbanism movement, died at 79 on Tuesday, June 17, in Palma de Mallorca, Spain.
“The work of the New Urbanist movement is grounded in the...
This image was recently posted on LinkedIn along with a discussion of the term SLUG, which stands for spread-out, low-density, unguided growth.
The housing supply-demand gap has grown so huge in desirable places that the panic to add more units is overshadowing what should be obvious about human needs goals.
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Developer gets tax credits for Baltimore historic reuse
Richard Florida is fond of saying that historic buildings are irreplaceable treasures for cities and towns, but sometimes turning them into new uses...
Maryland’s smart growth program gets ‘a little more than a tweak’
Maryland’s smart growth program, one of the most widely noted efforts by a state government to curb sprawl, has largely survived the shift to a new...
The Great Lakes Television Consortium has released “The
The Great Lakes Television Consortium has released “The Sprawling of America,” a comprehensive two-hour documentary in two parts examining land use...
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Suburbia was a housing program
We used to understand that housing construction was in the public interest
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