Although they stand in very different parts of the country, these college towns are spearheading the push to eliminate harmful, longstanding land-use policies.
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Find out why this stretch of Floridian stroad has been nicknamed “death valley” by locals.
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Today, city planning departments obsess over what happens inside buildings but pay scant attention to the quality of the space outside them.
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What does and doesn’t work about the “great-granddaddy” of New Urbanism?
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When we design our streets to make them safer for people with disabilities, it also makes them safer for people, as a whole.
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This suburb is a growing place, but it's not a successful place. It risks becoming an increasingly isolating place full of people who are cut off from the economic mainstream.
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Residents of Pensacola, FL, are working to make their city a better place to place to live, work, and thrive in as they implement incremental changes.
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Sarasota County, FL, is viewed as a trailblazer in the prevention of unchecked suburbanization. So why has its growth management plan has not resulted in a better pattern of development?
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How much do people in your community go about their lives in public or in private?
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This organization is suing their local government over an insolvent, master-planned development in Collier County, Florida.
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Building to last is the only thing we can afford to do. The social and environmental costs of disposable buildings are far too high.
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By building disposable structures, we are leading ourselves toward a socially, economically, and environmentally ruinous future.
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When it comes to creating strong neighborhoods, there are some valuable lessons to be had from slowing down the pace and seeking novelty in the ordinary.
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The recent tragedy in Surfside, Florida, is both a harbinger of things to come and emblematic of the nation’s larger problem with maintaining our built environment.
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A question we often hear concerns highway bypasses around small towns. Are they good? Bad? Let's find out by looking at a case study: Starke, Florida, and U.S. 301.
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Technocratic growth management in Florida has failed, and a new conversation is needed. Let's start that conversation now.
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New suburban development creates budget-devouring road liabilities. And the way developers are asked to mitigate their traffic impacts is only making the problem worse.
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Collier County is poised to spend over $200 million extending utilities to a whole new, previously rural, portion of the county. Let's #DoTheMath on this plan.
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Collier County's standards for new development on rural land repeatedly emphasize “innovative” growth...but when we look at their proposed mega-developments, it's really just business as usual.
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Orlando (and the surrounding state of Florida) has long been reliant on cars. But the city’s new director of transportation hopes to change that.
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