Thoroughfare design manual enters final stretch
A long-awaited thoroughfare design manual — the fruit of some five years of collaboration between the Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) and the Congress for New Urbanism — will go through its final approval phase this year. The result could be an important step forward for street design — or it could be a setback.
Commentary: Cities less friendly? Phooey!
The authors of University of California study suggest that public officials should encourage more sprawl. As it turns out, the original claim of the study, that suburbs are friendlier places to live than cities, is inaccurate.
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FEMA funds vernacular-style dwellings
Mississippi will get the lion’s share of housing designed by new urbanists; Louisiana complains.
Natural drainage in New Orleans and Portland
Stormwater management proposals that came out of a new urbanist charrette in the Gentilly section of New Orleans began to be acted upon in December — though not in Gentilly itself.
Entire houses roll out of Colorado factory
The Whole House Building System is off to a good start, producing complete townhouses and detached dwellings in a traditional neighborhood development (TND) setting.
Variety within structure
Steve Mouzon tells the secret of the Place Des Vosges and other beautiful places.
Rich McLaughlin, pioneer new urbanist
NU loses Richard McLaughlin, a Minneapolis-based architect and town planner known for his work on public-sector charrettes and for his efforts to systematize New Urbanism. He died on New Year’s Eve of pancreatic cancer. |
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Courtesy of Philip Langdon
