Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Urban Design

Urbanism in the Age of Climate Change: Urbanism Expanded

By Peter Calthorpe | Feb 1, 2011 | No Comments

Editor’s note: This week, we continue our 5-part series of excerpts from Peter Calthorpe’s book, “Urbanism in the Age of Climate Change.” This is installment number three. Thanks to Island Press, a few lucky Streetsblog readers will be selected to receive a free copy of the book. To enter the contest, fill out this form. […]

Urbanism in the Age of Climate Change

By Peter Calthorpe | Jan 26, 2011 | No Comments

Image © Peter Calthorpe & Marianna Leuschel Editor’s note: Today we are very pleased to begin a five-part series of excerpts from Peter Calthorpe’s book, “Urbanism in the Age of Climate Change.” Keep reading this week and next to learn how you can win a copy of the book from Island Press. I take as […]

Home Builders Urge Fannie, Freddie to Get Behind Mixed-Use Development

By Tanya Snyder | Jan 18, 2011 | 3 Comments

Urbanists have won an important victory in their campaign to reverse Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac’s bias against mixed-use development, enlisting the National Association of Home Builders to help push for a critical reform to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac’s lending standards. The mortgage giants currently require that projects they finance be no more than […]

Building a Farm Where a Freeway Used To Be

By Matthew Roth | Feb 9, 2010 | No Comments

Moving mulch on the old Central Freeway on-ramp. (Photo: Matthew Roth) A few weeks ago in San Francisco, a number of urban farmers opened a gate in a chain-link fence at Laguna Street, between Oak and Fell Streets, and entered an overgrown lot that has been unused for nearly two decades. The farmers brought with […]

White House Pitches $400M for Healthier Neighborhood Food Outlets

By Elana Schor | Feb 3, 2010 | 2 Comments

The connection between walkable development and grocery shopping may not seem immediately apparent — until you consider studies conducted in cities from Austin to Seattle that showed the share of trips taken by foot or by transit rises as local food outlets move closer to residential areas. The White House budget envisions a new investment […]

Streetsblog Capitol Hill Q&A With Leon Krier

By Elana Schor | Sep 23, 2009 | 3 Comments

Architect Leon Krier has been dubbed the godfather of new urbanism. His work on the U.K.’s Poundbury development project, spearheaded by Prince Charles, has made the Luxembourg-born Krier one of the world’s most talked-about urban planners. A drawing by Leon Krier — click here to see full-size version (Image: 2Blowhards) When Krier won the University […]

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