Beyond the battles between NIMBY and YIMBY, a third option— call it “QUIMBY”—offers a promising path forward.
The largest city in Northwest Arkansas, Fayetteville is managing growth by incremental development that is regenerating the city’s urban fabric.
A small city with major urban growth, Bentonville, Arkansas, offers a model for expansion that at the edges that preserves nature and historic small-town identity.
Lexington’s Warehouse Block is the outcome of 40 years of incremental development. It could be a replicable model for cities to recycle old commercial districts into social centers over time.
The Complete Streets movement has largely failed in practice, but a focus on networks and context could make it more effective.
A remarkable new Harvard study shows the benefits of mixed-income housing in high-poverty areas, using design based on New Urbanist principles.
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
Design center to help Miss. rebuild
New urbanists are working to establish a design and development center in Mississippi that would help the state’s Gulf Coast communities rebuild...
Doucette Homes’ Civano Sol development at Civano in
Doucette Homes’ Civano Sol development at Civano in Tucson, Arizona, won a Gold Nugget 2004 Award of Merit from the Pacific Coast Builders Conference...
Celebration to get Stetson U satellite campus
Celebration, the new urbanist town in Osceola County, Florida, will soon be home to a new educational facility, a satellite campus for Stetson...
Comparing new urban and conventional development in Tucson
Civano is a test case for New Urbanism versus sprawl. The former generates more value according to economic, environmental, and social indicators.
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