Less than 20% of the country lives in regions with high-quality transit systems that serve most of the population. There is a stark divide between the six or eight large metros that are the most urban in the United States, and everywhere else.
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Architects and CNU leaders, Andres Duany and Kevin Klinkenberg pull back the curtain on Savannah, GA.
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Why are our cities so spread out, struggling to pay their basic maintenance bills? A look at our history can tell us a lot.
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What you think you know about public preference (for a certain style of home, neighborhood, etc.) is all wrong.
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The rise of technology is slowly emptying out our malls and business parks. They could be put to better use... if we actually wanted to solve the problem.
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Over the last 70 years, our cities and towns have spread out in a way that our forebears never dreamed of, and that future generations will never be able to pay for.
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On the surface, mortgages appear to be a mostly free market enterprise, but the system masks a huge amount of government intervention.
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It's time to put these common misconceptions about suburban America to rest.
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When a city zones for sparse land uses, it's forcing people in other municipalities with no say in the decision to subsidize this choice.
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Provo, UT is undertaking a grand experiment in suburbanizing a public high school. Here are 3 major problems with that plan.
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Ponder what life will be like following another decade or two of inversion, with society’s arrangements -- no longer able to be propped up by an expanding state. Consider an America where the affluent inhabit our core cities and the poor are left behind on our suburbanized outskirts.
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For a few weeks, I’m visiting my family back in London, Ontario. This means, for a few weeks I am living on a cul-de-sac in a subdivision surrounded by other subdivisions, close to an arterial lined with shopping plazas, gas stations, drive-thrus, strip malls, an upscale enclosed shopping mall, and a big box centre.
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Our national economy is "all in" on the suburban experiment. We cannot sustain the trajectory we are on, but we've gone too far down the path to turn back.
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