Urban Development

Urban planner Joe Minicuzzi uses data to demonstrate how land-use choices shape tax revenue and long-term costs in Northwest Arkansas, comparing dense downtown blocks to sprawling development patterns.

On today's show, the new exhibition "Harold Keller: PORTALS" opens tonight at Alexander Gallery on West Avenue in Fayetteville. Also featured on today's episode, a new analysis looks at how land use choices shape a community’s finances, and why smaller buildings can sometimes do more than larger ones.

Cave Springs partners with the Urban Land Institute on a new downtown master plan aimed at preserving small-town character while preparing for rapid growth and the coming Highway 112 bypass.

On today's show, we hear how city leaders in Cave Springs keep coming back to the same question: how do we grow without losing the qualities that made people want to move there in the first place? Also, a concert on the University of Arkansas campus tomorrow is designed to bring people together. Plus, a rundown of the news from this week in the River Valley with Michael Tilley of Talk Business & Politics.

The Urban Land Institute of Northwest Arkansas will host its 2025 Place Summit on Nov. 12 in Fayetteville. University of Washington professor Gregg Colburn discusses housing policy, public investment and what Northwest Arkansas can learn from other growing regions.

On today's show, we hear a conversation advocating for increased public and private investment in affordable housing. Plus, the Madness of Edgar Allen Poe. We also hear from jazz musician Camille Thurman.

Executive director Rachel Patton joins Ozarks at Large to discuss the 2025 list of Arkansas’s most endangered places, including Fayetteville’s Duncan Hill neighborhood and East Mountain Cemetery, and what it takes to preserve the state’s architectural and cultural history.

Two Northwest Arkansas nonprofits, Bring It Home Inc. and Excellerate Foundation, are developing new models to make housing more attainable — from community land trusts in Springdale to teacher housing at McAuley Place in Bentonville.

Fayetteville is updating its 2004 downtown master plan and inviting residents to share ideas on housing, infrastructure and community priorities.

The 34th Annual Congress for the New Urbanism is visiting northwest Arkansas in May 2026. CNU President Mallory Baches and Fayetteville planner Mary Madden discuss how Legacy Projects provide free design and planning workshops to help improve local communities.