• Old Town TND recognized for design

    A 360-acre traditional neighborhood development sets new pattern for growth in Columbus, Georgia.
    Old Town, a 360-acre traditional neighborhood development (TND), is partly built within the consolidated city and county of Columbus, Georgia, located on the Alabama border, midway between Macon, Georgia, and Montgomery, Alabama. The older part of Columbus is noted for brick mill buildings and 11...Read more

  • The infrastructure choice

    A postcard sketch competition asked Urban Guild members to draw some ideas in a few minutes during an evening gathering at the Guild Summit in Chattanooga in late October. The members include architects, urban designers, and other urbanists. The winner was Anthony Catania of AMC Architecture &...Read more

  • New Urban Update: IncDev in Gaza, Tom Low, Charter Awards, Shoup, and Brussat

    I have been working on a Climate Action Handbook for CNU, which we plan to have published and printed by CNU 34 in Northwest Arkansas, but in doing so, I took a break from Public Square for a month and a half. There's a backlog of stories, some of which I present here under “New Urban Update.” I...Read more

  • Chattanooga is chugging along

    Four decades of public-nonprofit-private partnership in New Urbanism has produced a city in balance, moving forward.
    I was recently in Chattanooga, one of the first cities in America to be transformed by New Urbanism. An industrial city and railroad hub (celebrated by Glenn Miller’s “Chattanooga Choo-Choo”), the City was in economic and demographic free-fall by the latter part of the 20 th Century. But...Read more