Misconceptions of density sometimes fuel opposition, but a low-rise single-family and missing middle housing mix can achieve 15 units per acre.
Two handsome four-story buildings are on the final lots to be built in Glenwood Park, a Charter Award-winning neighborhood in Atlanta.
There's been much discussion of creating what the late Ray Oldenburg called “third places,” why they are vanishing, and how they are linchpins of neighborhoods and social interaction. Neighborhood Lab, based in Copenhagen, created a graphic...
Walkable places are critical to cities and the national economy and here’s a formula to get them back on track.
This graph shows why housing is getting so expensive. Annual housing production in the US plummeted in the 2010s, with annual single-family construction just over half of what it was in the 2000s, according to a report Top Cities for Real Estate...
Planning an acupunctural approach to repairing a sprawling plan from the 1950s, using urbanism 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
New urban plan and fund partnership spur revitalization
Beall's Hill neighborhood in Macon, Georgia, where a volunteer charrette initiated a revitalization, benefits from the nation's largest revolving...
NJ town center proves too popular
Washington Town Center, the first New Jersey town center built from the ground up with the help of grants from the state, including a planning grant...
The Texas Department of Transportation has earmarked $3
The Texas Department of Transportation has earmarked $3 million in federal funds for sidewalks, crosswalks, bike paths, and other elements that will...
An in-depth way of organizing how we build
Rendering and photo shared captions: The series above from A Living Tradition explains an architectural solution to clothes drying — the Laundry...
Great Ideas
Suburbia was a housing program
We used to understand that housing construction was in the public interest
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