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Great Places in Balance With Nature: Beyond Low Impact Development

As an emerging area of sustainable practice, Low Impact Development's current one-size-fits-all application is inadequate to effectively fulfill its guiding principles, writes Jonathan Ford, who proposes five LID planning and design strategies for achieving great places in balance with nature.
30 January 2012 - 2:00pm

Celebrating the Mid-Rise Building

Builder Magazine thinks its time to give the mid-rise (4-6 stories) building its due.
1 May 2011 - 11:00am
Builder Magazine

Urbanism is Alive

Steve Mouzon explains how to think about cities and towns as living species, and how that perspective should guide the practice of planners and architects.
4 July 2009 - 1:00pm
Living Urbanism

Critics May Miss The Green Point of the SmartCode

Communities aren't going to get a green code implemented, or any code, without that code appealing to developers, says Sandy Sorlien. They're building our new sustainable places and infilling our old ones.
11 January 2009 - 9:00am

The Bicycle Network

Mon, 07/07/2008 - 09:18

Basic Elements

Chinese urbanism and the scale of development

Sun, 05/13/2007 - 05:05

SHANGHAI, CHINA--I've been a fan of New Urbanism for several years, but I've always considered myself an urban "pluralist"--someone who doesn't believe there is an "objective" or general urban form that is persistently successful over long periods of time. Indeed, Bob Bruegmann's thesis in Sprawl: A Compact History, suggests that urban form changes and evolves over time, although generally in a less dense direction.

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