You can’t fix the environment through lawsuits.
Developing Real Estate Projects With Affordability in Mind
Avery believes that a neighborhood can build prosperity beyond just providing low rents, and that homeownership and placemaking are important factors.
Avery believes that a neighborhood can build prosperity beyond just providing low rents, and that homeownership and placemaking are important factors.
Cars Should Not Crash Into Buildings
Cars crashing into buildings is a symbol of increasingly dangerous roadways that injure and kill drivers and pedestrians.
Cars crashing into buildings is a symbol of increasingly dangerous roadways that injure and kill drivers and pedestrians.
A Life Without Car Ownership: The Challenges Are Not What I Thought They’d Be!
The car is the best option for certain things in a city that has evolved to be almost completely auto-oriented.
The car is the best option for certain things in a city that has evolved to be almost completely auto-oriented.
Designing for Integrated Lives
Staring at the cranes in the distance, indicators of more construction to come, it seems like Austin is thriving as one of the leading destinations for the post-COVID population dispersal, made possible partly by the rise of working from home.
Staring at the cranes in the distance, indicators of more construction to come, it seems like Austin is thriving as one of the leading destinations for the post-COVID population dispersal, made possible partly by the rise of working from home.
The Death of the Neighborhood Grocery Store
For all these reasons, we need to allow small, residential neighborhood shops once again.
For all these reasons, we need to allow small, residential neighborhood shops once again.
Removing Parking Minimums Is Just the Start
Hartford Connecticut made history in 2017 when it became the first U.S. city to eliminate parking minimum laws citywide.
Hartford Connecticut made history in 2017 when it became the first U.S. city to eliminate parking minimum laws citywide.
We Sold Our Car Five Years Ago. Here’s Why It Works for Us.
This month marks five years since my husband and I sold our only car in order to give the “car-lite” life a go.
This month marks five years since my husband and I sold our only car in order to give the “car-lite” life a go.
Displaying Death Tolls on Highways Isn’t Making Anyone Drive Any Safer
Signs reminding drivers of the dangers of driving are a common sight across the country’s roads. Some encourage vigilance while others broadcast fatality rates.
Signs reminding drivers of the dangers of driving are a common sight across the country’s roads. Some encourage vigilance while others broadcast fatality rates.
What’s So Special About Small?
Thinking, acting, and starting small can be your biggest asset!
Thinking, acting, and starting small can be your biggest asset!
In Conversation With an Expert: Jennifer Griffin on the Built Environment and Human Flourishing
It has sidewalks, on-street parking, and crosswalks. Yet, a number of design elements weren’t calibrated correctly such that it resulted in a tragedy.
It has sidewalks, on-street parking, and crosswalks. Yet, a number of design elements weren’t calibrated correctly such that it resulted in a tragedy.
The Lost Art of Exploring
There are plenty of dollars that won’t be spent at local businesses because no one knew they existed.
There are plenty of dollars that won’t be spent at local businesses because no one knew they existed.
Realtors: Buyers Will Pay Extra for Walkable Neighborhoods
The solution for this strong consumer preference seems obvious: Build, or allow, more housing in compact, walkable neighborhoods that buyers are overwhelmingly saying they desire.
The solution for this strong consumer preference seems obvious: Build, or allow, more housing in compact, walkable neighborhoods that buyers are overwhelmingly saying they desire.
How to Spot Ecosystem Collapse, Three Signs
Diversity is also a proxy for resilience: losing diversity means a reduced capacity to observe changes and come up with innovative solutions.
Diversity is also a proxy for resilience: losing diversity means a reduced capacity to observe changes and come up with innovative solutions.
Back Alley Arctic
It clearly brought a sense of pride and connection within the neighborhood.
It clearly brought a sense of pride and connection within the neighborhood.
Tactical Urbanism in Baltimore Yields Safer Streets, Inspiring Art
The first thing you notice is a colorful array of stenciled leaves covering the sidewalk. Follow them and you’ll soon be astride a crosswalk of geometric shapes in vibrant colors, before linking up with another decorated sidewalk on the other side.
The first thing you notice is a colorful array of stenciled leaves covering the sidewalk. Follow them and you’ll soon be astride a crosswalk of geometric shapes in vibrant colors, before linking up with another decorated sidewalk on the other side.















