How two identical park buildings reveal the power of small design choices.

Thanks to persistent local advocacy and city leadership willing to listen, change is finally coming to a dangerous intersection in New Haven, Connecticut.

Small, precise zoning code text revisions can be a game-changer for communities facing housing shortages.

13 years after a new stadium and set of highway ramps promised to bring economic revitalization to Chester, Pennsylvania, things have only gotten worse.

With limited budgets and staff time, cities often reserve their safety interventions for the most dangerous locations. But that doesn't mean other areas are safe.

Better communication isn’t complicated. If your city wants more incremental development, start there.

Los Angeles didn’t mismanage its way into crisis. It built its way here.

The notorious Park Avenue in Minneapolis is finally getting some immediate safety improvements, thanks to the efforts of local advocates and county officials willing to step up.

For many small developers, the hardest step isn’t swinging a hammer or drawing a site plan; it’s figuring out where to start. Here's how Bentonville, Arkansas, is fixing that.

In Shreveport, Louisiana, a deeply controversial project aims to build a new highway directly through the city’s core.

In the heart of the Rust Belt, a city once defined by industrial decline is quietly rebuilding from the ground up.

Here's how Lafayette, Louisiana, became a national leader in supporting incremental developers and creating an ecosystem where community reinvestment thrives.

Volunteers in Spokane, Washington, sent a message to city hall last month by building, decorating, and installing 29 bus benches throughout the city.

If you want more affordable, resilient, and context-sensitive housing, you need to equip your residents to build it. Here's how Sacramento did it.

This group went from a struggling handful of advocates to a powerhouse for local change. Here's how they did it.

On paper, backyard cottages were legal in Tallahassee, Florida. In practice, they were nearly impossible to build. Here's how the city changed that.

Introducing Stacked Against Us: a podcast about how a national economic gamble broke housing, and why local resilience is the only way forward.

US-19 in Pasco County, Florida, is one of the clearest examples of how federal transportation policy creates dangerous, expensive, and economically destructive outcomes.

Cities shape themselves around what is easy and what is hard. If you want good development, you need to make it easy to do.

A fourplex is not a high-rise and shouldn’t be treated like one. Memphis is recognizing that.

The regional government of Northwest Louisiana recently canceled discussions on the I-49 Connector project. But is this highway project really dead?

Buffalo neighbors built benches for bus stops, proving that small, bottom-up projects can have a big impact on daily life.

The challenge facing most small-scale developers isn’t vision or willpower. It’s isolation. If you want to get their builders' projects off of paper, you need to help them connect with a network.

This homegrown developer is bringing practical, thoughtful, and community-focused housing to disinvested neighborhoods in South Bend, Indiana.