The Intrepid Staff

<p>The new LEED-ND program is seeking pilot projects to be certified under its new rating system, though developers of some greenfield New Urbanist communities worry the system will penalize them.</p>

<p>Pools of capital ebb and flow, but the tide may be starting to come in for smart growth and New Urbanist investment funds.</p>

<p>New Urbanists are pushing for big changes to the International Traffic Engineers' thoroughfare design manual to help make roads more pedestrian-friendly.</p>

<p>Philip Langdon covers two new urban projects, Holiday neighborhood in Boulder, CO, and Beerline B in Milwaukee, WI, that achieve an intriguing mix of approaches and styles.</p>

<p>In the face of an "inaccurate claim" that city neighbors are less friendly than their suburban counterpart, Robert Steuteville of <em>New Urban News</em> provides comments on the University of California study "Social Interaction and Urban Sprawl".</p>