DC residents yearning to cross the Atlantic and walk the streets of famous European cities will soon have something much closer to home to whet their appetite. A woonerf is designed to allow drivers, ...

What would happen if a streetscape became a place where cars and people and bikes all shared the road? What if the road actually became more of a place… a melting pot of people, cars and bikes that ...

What’s a woonerf? That’s what Seattle City Council members needed to know Monday before approving a South Lake Union real-estate development deal. Woonerf (pronounced VONE-erf) means “living yard” in ...

In modern-day cities, streets and alleys, which are generally the purview of automobiles, make up the largest portion of public property, comprising a quarter to a third of the total land area. As our ...

It’s a type of roadway that’s been popular in Europe for decades and now there’s one in west Houston. We visit a place in the Energy Corridor where it’s okay to walk in the street. Just a couple of ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Proposed Fair St. “greenway” beside 185 new apartments (below). Credit: Epimoni design A ...

Wynwood might just get Miami’s first woonerf. No, it’s not the latest craft coffee or designer furniture craze — it’s a Dutch term for a kind of pedestrian-friendly, low-speed street that can be ...

The Energy Corridor District keeps racking up award after award in its forward-thinking efforts to beautify and improve the Houston area Fresh off receiving the Long Range Planning Award from the APA ...

woonerf.jpgThink city streets are must be either driving lanes or pedestrian malls? Think again, grandpa. The New York Times has this round-up of some of the more progressive ideas for urban design.

A woonerf is coming to the Energy Corridor management district. Woonerf, pronounced voo-nerf, is a Dutch word meaning "street for living" or "shared street." It's a street where motorists, cyclists ...

New Jersey’s state Economic Development Authority approved Liberty Property Trust’s updated plans for an $830 million ofice and residential riverfront campus on the Camden waterfront, the Courier-Post ...

Generally speaking, when cycling infrastructure is discussed in Toronto, the talk is of bike lanes. Similarly, on the rare occasion that pedestrians are thought important enough to warrant real ...