As an admirer of New Urbanism, I have been following the city of Asheville’s Urban Place Form Code developments with great interest, starting with my review of this summer’s Citizen Times article ...

Infill development, defined by the California Office of Planning and Research as “building within unused and underutilized lands within existing development patterns, typically but not exclusively in ...

Several years ago the city embarked on a project to update our comprehensive plan, Horizon 2020. The new plan, Plan 2040, is our community plan for guiding growth for the next two decades. Crafting ...

The most interesting sentence in Bill Branyon’s entertaining but misguided opinion piece [“Look Homeward, Asheville: Let’s Make the City’s Pop-up Parks Permanent,” May 29, Xpress] reads as follows: ...

The Twin Cities is growing in a new direction: inward, not outward. In a shift in development patterns, sprawl has been stalled and replaced by infill development on blighted, forgotten and ugly plots ...

Laurel to two different proposals to add apartment units within already developed areas in Salisbury’s city limits. One complex will add dozens of units near the intersection of South Main Street and ...

Examples of how the new small or tiny homes could fit into Spokane's urban fabric. (Courtesy Nathan Gwinn/City of Spokane) This is your first of three free stories this month. Become a free or ...

I've been writing about Lyon College's ambitious plans to open the state's first dental and veterinary schools in downtown Little Rock. That initiative is a perfect example of infill development--the ...