Richmond Times-Dispatch

Columnist Michael Paul Williams of the Times-Dispatch worries that the planned New Urbanist development in Roseland, VA will turn out to be 'as antiseptic as a theme park."

With public bus service to the Fredericksburg train station, Richmond commuters can then ride regional rail to Washington, DC.

CEOs for Cities editorial writer interviews economist Joe Cortwright on what makes cities successful. Hint: Don't copy other cities.

According to a recent study in the online journal PLoS Medicine, longevity varies by ethnicity and location.

Newcomers to the U.S. are finding jobs and a safe place to call home outside of the nation's big cities.

A farmworker advocacy group is working with Virginia farmers to provide housing for the seasonal workers that tend their fields. Houses made of hay are the affordable and energy-efficient solution to this need for seasonal housing.

Many in Virginia believe that more funding is needed for transportation, although some, including members of the Virginia General Assembly, don't want to raise taxes.

More roads contribute to sprawl. It's time to try alternative approaches to solve traffic problems.

Several new development projects look to New Urbanism for inspiration.

Six Virginia newspapers jointly explore the state's roads in a three-part series.

20 crashes/year convince city to change traffic pattern in Lee Circle.

Richmond VA malls joins other malls in setting curfew for teens.

New Urbanists Andres Duany and Anton Nelessen keynote the Building a Better Richmond conference in Virginia.

Randy Salzman says the nation's gasoline addiction deserves a rational response.

Do walls and gates really make good neighbors?

A county's law to allow gated communities sparks a debate.

Should Virginia's time-honored Dillon Rule, which reserves most powers tp the state unless explicitly eelegated to county and city governments, be scrapped?

Federal highway tax dollars are spent on some unlikely projects.

VA 288 is spurring development in Richmond area's western growth corridor.

The U.S. Supreme Court refused to invalidate a Richmond housing authority policy to keep nonresidents out of city housing projects.