Low crime rates and affordable property preoccupy adults, but kids need something more: the ability to walk the streets and play out on their own Which are the best cities for children to live in?

Wondering where to move that’ll be pleasant and safe and suit you at all stages of life, from youth through old age? (Or, you city planners out there: Are you trying to create a place like that?) It’s ...

You may have heard the iconic origin story of the popsicle—Frank Epperson forgot a cup of soda and a stirring stick on his porch one night in 1905, then found the world’s first popsicle in the morning ...

Sometimes complicated metrics aren't necessary. Easy ways to know if a neighborhood is well-designed. In a recent post on his firm's excellent blog, PlacesShakers and NewsMakers, Scott Doyon reminds ...

For a neighbourhood to be considered friendly to pedestrians, planners in the new urbanist school believe, it must pass the "Popsicle test." Essentially, a neighbourhood must be planned so that an ...