A small change to zoning codes could help overcome some of the forces stifling growth in American cities and avoid displacement of long-term residents at the same time.
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Land use planning should be a means to an end — not an end in itself.
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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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In Celebration, Florida, a lack of smaller lots meant a huge missed opportunity for the town.
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Overheated rhetoric and protest from all sides over neighborhood change are a reflection of the insecurity many of us feel over the future of places we love.
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Watch the recording of our latest webcast with Jeff Speck.
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Transit is not a prerequisite for making a decent people-oriented neighborhood.
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From the individual citizen to the federal bureaucrat, we need to start having a fundamentally different conversation about how we build our shared living spaces.
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Here are 10 tips that will equip you to turn the high-potential neighborhoods in your town into walkable, economically successful places.
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A basic universal code can help us create productive, economically successful developments while allowing for maximum flexibility for developers, business owners and residents.
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Municipalities for whom property taxes are lifeblood should treat parking for what it is: dead weight.
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Flexible regulations and a dose of humility could change this unproductive dynamic.
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A traditional pattern of development requires zoning that is fine-grained, geographically contextual and responsive to observable feedback.
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A mechanistic approach to city problems exposes us to two harms: one is that we employ the wrong solutions. The other is that we actually make things worse.
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Today we're bringing you a video from a Strong Towns event earlier this year that addresses several pressing questions from urban planners.
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A hierarchical zoning model would allow greater development flexibility and remove needless rules from our zoning codes. Here's how to do it.
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This neighborhood has three different types of streets to meet different needs—but all of them provide ample room for the best indicator species of success: people.
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When affordability meets flexibility, the result tends to be the democratization of a local real estate market.
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What we need is not a new and improved vision of urban form but a robust liberal understanding of urban form. This transition involves shifting from thinking of cities as simple machines toward thinking of cities as complex, emergent systems.
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If planners learn to determine what the public will is and apply themselves in service to that public will, our municipalities can be that much closer to towns well planned.
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