RECENT ARTICLES – 2019
We have made cars safer, but we still are reluctant to make streets safer.
This missing middle housing type is a highly adaptable tool for developers and builders in many locations.
From the decimation of downtowns to the “retail apocalypse,” massively changing retail has been the norm for the last seven decades. Urban retail may benefit from the current transformation.
From Ancient Rome to modern America, amphitheaters are a superb facility to gather communities together.
Prairie Queen is a re-imagining of a suburban apartment complex in the form of a walkable neighborhood.
One of Seaside’s crucial mandates: Houses should have porches. New Urbanism spread from there, and the number of new U.S. homes built with porches has risen ever since, from 42 percent in 1994 to 52 percent in 2004 to 65 percent in 2016.
A pilot program proposed to fund the study and removal of highways in urban contexts, an idea of great interest to urbanists, has largely flown under the radar.
Memphis Medical District demonstrates the power of anchor institutions to improve sense of place and the economy in surrounding neighborhoods, while avoiding displacement.
Traditional urbanism is the livable and sustainable alternative to what is being promised in breathtaking futuristic renderings of glass and steel structures.