newurban

"Big Asphalt" has compromised our health, safety, and welfare—but we can defeat it if we try.

Robert Steuteville discusses the slow, phased emergence of the New Urbanism. We are only partway through a change that will take generations. We are now immersed in the revitalization of cities. More phases will come.

That question may seem like a contradiction, but it couldn't be more pertinent to communities and land use—existing codes and policies generate change by shaping investment.

Let's discuss how community planning could be fundamentally reorganized to improve both efficiency and placemaking.

Several common assumptions about new urban codes fail to stand up to scrutiny.