Augusta Catalina Del Zotto was born in the Outer Mission, a working-class San Francisco neighborhood populated by a mosaic of first- and second-generation immigrants from many different countries.

The city-funded nonprofit that works to make Columbus' urban neighborhoods more attractive has a new executive director. Isabela Gould, an architect andan Ohio State University lecturer, has beenhired ...

A researcher analyzed how four common neighborhood designs influence residents' physical activity and well-being. Residents of traditional neighborhoods walk the most, and residents of suburban ...

In conjunction with Calle 24 Latino Cultural District, the San Francisco Planning Department and the Office of Economic and Workforce Development held a special area guidelines workshop at Cesar ...

More walkable neighborhoods, parks and public transit could all reduce your chance of becoming one of the 600 million adults who battle obesity worldwide. The study found a neighborhood's design plays ...

Asian Neighborhood Design, one of the nation's oldest nonprofit community development and architectural organizations, has named Augusta Catalina Del Zotto as its executive director. Del Zotto, a ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KPIX) — Businesses in the San Francisco Excelsior District hope to get more customers in the neighborhood with the help of a community design project. Leaders of the initiative chose ...

Residents in the Dutch city of Utrecht have long understood that vibrant cities and lots of cars don’t really mix; Utrecht first experimented with temporarily closing streets in its city center to ...

Thirty-one-year-old Aaron Lee has a new career. His old one wasn't working out. "I have been shooting heroin and going in and out of jail since I was 15," he said. "All I knew how to do was shoplift ...

LAST month, at the Seattle City Council’s Planning, Land Use and Zoning Committee, Chair Rob Johnson decided to delay action on important changes to the neighborhood design-review process, even before ...