Transit Alliance Miami, a transit and mobility advocacy group, hopes to encourage the development of more types of housing in Florida with draft legislation that would repeal costly parking minimums.
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The battle against highway expansions can be one of the toughest fights an advocate will ever come up against. But as this Florida-based Local Conversations group has shown, persistence will eventually pay off.
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The pre-approved building plan model is beginning to take hold across the country as a streamlined alternative to achieve a community vision. Here’s how one community in Florida is doing its own take on the concept.
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An older resident lost his life while crossing a deadly stroad in Bradenton, FL. When Strong Towns member Danny Williams found out, he knew something had to be done.
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Residents of Winter Garden, FL, realized they needed to take action to revive their declining town. They did this by focusing on one straightforward goal: bring people back downtown.
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Settling down from a cross-country move, Strong Towns Editor-in-Chief Daniel Herriges reflects on what makes a place feel like “home,” and what prompts people to put roots in a location—even if it’s not a “perfect” place.
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The state of Florida has a bold new strategy to eliminate the adverse effects of urban sprawl: Change the definition.
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Good urbanism doesn’t have to mean large apartment buildings or an immaculate row of brownstones; the ad-hoc version on display in this Florida neighborhood is more relevant as a model of adaptation for the rest of us.
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The Conservancy of Southwest Florida has done the math on a proposed development in rural Collier County, FL, and what they discovered enabled them to take a large-scale developer to court.
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Heated discussion about a new condo in Sarasota, FL, has got locals calling the building an eyesore. But is this a case of misdirected ire?
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One would expect a Republican governor to endorse free-market solutions on a local level, yet housing and zoning tend to scramble traditional political debates in unexpected ways.
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Most parking lots on Black Friday are not going to be full. Here’s one retail complex that’s an exception—but it just proves that having “enough” parking is always less important than creating a place people want to be.
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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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