I have been working on a Climate Action Handbook for CNU, which we plan to have published and printed by CNU 34 in Northwest Arkansas, but in doing so, I took a break from Public Square for a month and a half. There's a backlog of stories, some of...
Four decades of public-nonprofit-private partnership in New Urbanism has produced a city in balance, moving forward.
California Forever in the Central Valley offers an opportunity to test walkable community-building on a scale we haven’t seen in a century.
Stern challenged a modernist establishment in the 1970s and 1980s, building a solid portfolio of work that would firmly establish the idea of ‘modern traditionalism.’
How suburban life quietly redefined everything we buy, use, and throw away.
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 Center for Applied Transect Studies has launched
The Center for Applied Transect Studies has launched a website “to gather the work and intelligence of New Urbanists who use the Transect as a tool...
Developer Robert Shaw, the former CEO of Columbus
Developer Robert Shaw, the former CEO of Columbus Realty Trust who was instrumental in the Uptown District renaissance in Dallas, now plans to build...
Ayrsley, the largest and densest new urban project in Charlotte
Ayrsley, the largest and densest new urban project in Charlotte, North Carolina, to date, is breaking ground on a 140-acre site bounded by Interstate...
Market trends favor transit
Eighty percent want to live green and the two biggest generational cohorts will demand better transit service.
Great Ideas
