A town extension of seaside resort took a week to design, but it has been 25 years in the making.
A new book by the eminent urbanist Jonathan Barnett will make you more optimistic about US cities and their growth.
A checklist of physical qualities of walkable neighborhoods was enumerated by Dhiru Thadani in The Language of Towns and Cities.
A proposal could add thousands of housing units to the City center, while making it more walkable and sociable.
The town center at Trilith creates a walkable downtown in the rural/suburban county 20 miles south of Atlanta.
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Better Cities & Towns Archive
Compact, mixed-income performed better in housing downturn, study shows
Low-density suburbs lost more value than walkable neighborhoods in the housing downturn — and low-income city neighborhoods also suffered, according...
Cities study success of Portland Streetcar
In the six years since the Portland (Oregon) Streetcar began operating, the city’s Pearl District has experienced a remarkable development boom — one...
Patience has paid off in San Jose, California,
Patience has paid off in San Jose, California, where two development projects are completed in the Jackson-Taylor neighborhood and a third is under...
Crime rises in suburbs, falls in cities
During the first decade of this century the US suburban homicide rate rose 16.9 percent while declining 16.7 percent in cities, according to a Wall...
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