Terrain

The "commons" are increasingly falling into the hands of private owners, prompting Jay Walljasper to what it means to have commonly shared spaces in the modern world.

Permeable surfaces in Seattle offer ideas on how cities can best deal with the environmental problems of urban runoff.

The award-winning, 28-acre Glenwood Park is a brownfield redevelopment in an infill location that features a mix of well-designed homes and commercial spaces, including a mixed-use "town center."

Online magazine Terrain interviews Architect and urbanist Stefanos Polyzoides.

A strange new dream began to take real shape and materialize on the desert floor—the Burning Man Art Festival. Includes an essay and slideshow.

After years of planning, three Sonoran Desert cohousing developments provide lessons about living in the desert.

The first 12 models of homes at Prairie Crossing represent the firstcommunity-scale demonstration project for the U.S. Department ofEnergy's Building America program.

The current issue of Terrain profiles Lenox Village, Nashville's first full-scale traditional neighborhood development.

Simmons Buntin, writer and resident of Civano, a new urbanist and sustainable development in Tucson, Arizona, questins the future of his community.

Horizon West, located in southwest Orange County, Florida, is a new community of mixed-use villages designed to reflect classic principles of Garden Cities and New Urbanism.

How does a community developing a distinct identity and sense of place for itself?

The 107-acre Rosemary Beach's urban design, allows the community to remain lively in color while still an integral part of the town fabric itself.

Peter Forbes of the Trust for Public Land offers an essay about how land conservation can change a community.

Loss of wildlife habitat brought to you by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service.

The 209-acre neotraditional town of Orenco Station is transit-oriented, growing from its railway past.

This excerpted chapter is from a "fix-it manual" for citizen planners working on improving their towns or neighborhoods.

"The American left has long had a problem with ecological issues."

A case study of a "conservation community" that successfully uses a set of ten guiding principles to balance growth and open space.