Houston Strategies

Does Houston's unzoned, free-market approach or Portland's more comprehensively-planned approach build more density? A comparison looks at what's happening in the more planned, high-growth, Sunbelt cities.

Should urban planners take their cues from architects who prefer central control or economists who prefer free markets?

While "Traffic calming" can be effective in reducing traffic through a neighborhood, sometimes it can work too well.

Houston decides to tackle the weather as its biggest impediment to New Urbanism.