• Rebuilding a neighborhood in beleaguered Beirut

    The Port and the City offers hope for a neighborhood in Beirut that is recovering from a major disaster. A University of Miami School of Architecture team won a Student Merit Award in CNU's 2022 Charter Awards.
    In August of 2020, one of the largest human-caused, nonnuclear explosions in history destroyed the port and adjacent neighborhoods in Beirut, Lebanon. A University of Miami team drafted a plan to rebuild Karantina, one of the damaged neighborhoods, with an urban and architectural vision based on...Read more

  • Signature park project bridges community divide

    The deliberative engagement process used by the 11th Street Bridge Park in Washington, D.C. shows how community revitalization can benefit existing residents.
    Successful equitable development takes work but there are steps and actions organizations can take to ensure local communities are truly involved. The 11th Street Bridge Park in Washington, D.C. will break ground later this year, but it is the long-term community engagement work that illustrates...Read more

  • Legacy Projects proposed for Oklahoma

    CNU is seeking design teams to lead historically and culturally significant projects in Oklahoma City and Tulsa in advance of CNU 30.
    CNU launched the Legacy Projects in 2015, and the program has achieved high rate of implementation and impact over the last six years. Legacy Projects create urban design plans for diverse neighborhoods in cities, towns, and suburbs through a collaborative process with community members. Legacy...Read more

  • Former psychiatric hospital now affordable housing

    The redevelopment of the former St. Elizabeths Hospital in Washington DC combines historic preservation with affordable housing and opens a large campus to the public realm.
    The redevelopment of the historic 180-acre campus of St. Elizabeths Hospital, a mental health facility that closed in the 1980s, gives a long-awaited boost to the Congress Heights neighborhood in southeast Washington DC. I wrote about this plan in 2017, when it was an appealing vision. Now it’s an...Read more