Hundreds of properties in Missouri's well-known new urban projects go to public auction as part of the developer's strategy for emerging from Chapter 11. Hundreds of properties in New Town at St. Charles — which over the years has been one of the most successful traditional neighborhood developments (TNDs) in the Midwest — went to public auction in early May as part of the developer's strategy for emerging from Chapter 11 bankruptcy. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported in March that properties in New Town, a 755-acre community in a suburb northwest of St. Louis, were being put up for auction ...

Most of the 2011 Charter Awards from the Congress for the New Urbanism recognize projects that deal with austere times. The South Coast Rail Economic Development & Land Use Corridor Plan, aimed at guiding an economically sluggish section of southeast Massachusetts, is the grand-prize winner in CNU's 2011 Charter Awards. Drawn up by Goody Clancy & Associates of Boston, the plan aims to ensure that when commuter rail reaches a 750-square-mile area, including Fall River and New Bedford, it will help generate compact, walkable, walkable, mixed-use development. Among academic projects receiving Charter Awards, the grand-prize winner are Strategies for Sustainable Skaneateles, ...

The redevelopment of a 500,000-square-foot suburban strip mall in Farmingdale, NY, is New Urban Network's May 2011 Plan of the Month. A 500,000-square-foot suburban strip mall in Farmingdale, NY, which lies at the nexus of Long Island's most significant workplace corridor and its main population centers, is slated to be redeveloped as a walkable, mixed-use town center and transit-oriented development (TOD). The 120-acre greyfield redevelopment will feature a reopened Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) station, named the Republic Station, and a planned Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) corridor. In addition, underutilized industrial sites and a private airport currently surround the mall ...

If New Urbanism can be boiled down to a single idea, perhaps it would make places walkable. But what makes pedestrians feel attracted to one location and want to avoid another? One answer is simple proximity. A place within a quarter mile of shops, houses, schools, parks, entertainment venues, workplaces, and other types of uses has the potential to be highly walkable. The Walkscore website measures this proximity. Street Network But there is much more to walkability than proximity. The quality of the walk is just as important, perhaps more s, than the distance. In other words, walkability is more ...