Try finding this scenario in Lawrence: In a new neighborhood, a four-plex apartment building gets built right next door to a $400,000 home. It’s the type of scenario for planners and neighbors that ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - The Nashville Department of Transportation (NDOT) announced a tactical urbanism program that they say will support and facilitate community-led installation of temporary ...

Has the New Urbanism outlived its original purpose? The movement’s charismatic founder, Andrés Duany, seems to think so. The choice of metaphor is intentional. Duany believes the metaphorical asteroid ...

I don’t know if urbanism is science or art, but I do know its outcomes are best with a dose of creativity. There’s plenty to learn from the giant leaps in art and science to improve your urbanism ...

I see a fork in the road coming in the real estate industry. I see it when I drive far out from cities, in places they used to call “the country,” and observe extensions of suburban sprawl. Housing ...

Urbanism exists in the U.S., but for many, the closest experience comes from theme parks, Vegas resorts, or lifestyle centers ...

I remember looking toward the edge of town and thinking that something seemed off. We had stopped here before crossing the Continental Divide, in one of those typically charming Colorado mountain ...

At what point does necessary regulation become unnecessary red tape? The answer lies in the eye of the beholder, but anyone who has ever dealt with an urban construction or major reconstruction ...

New Urbanism officially turns 25 this year, though its founders had been using its principles to design communities for years before the meeting of the movement’s first congress in 1993. While New ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: The following is an excerpt from “Urbanism Without Effort,” by Charles R. Wolfe, published by Island Press. In it, the author uses text and photos to illustrate how unplanned spaces and ...

Last July, I was visiting my mother, who lives in Oakland, Calif., when I began spotting small wooden blocks attached to the base of telephone poles. Each block had a miniature painting of a gnome on ...

Even with a pleasant mountain breeze swirling through the foothills of the Smokies, Zack Roskop had to close his doors and windows once 3:30 struck. The game of the millennium was in town.