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.
There are always good reasons for not doing the right thing.
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 City of Montgomery, Alabama, adopted the SmartCode
The City of Montgomery, Alabama, adopted the SmartCode by a unanimous vote of council in January. According to Chad Emerson of Faulkner University in...
Toronto envisions “water rooms” in Port Lands development
An international group of planners rethinks how the city’s industrial waterfront should mature.
Toronto residents are getting excited about the...
Windsor Forum on Design Education: Toward An Ideal Curriculum to Reform Architectural Education
Edited by Stephanie E. Bothwell, Andres M. Duany, Peter J. Hetzel, Steven W. Hurtt, and Dhiru A. Thadani New Urban Press, 2004, 437 pp, $35...
Thousands of apartments envisioned in a suburban Washington corridor
Arlington County, Virginia, has had great success in transforming the Rosslyn-to-Ballton corridor over the past 30 years. Now the county, across the...
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