• One million homes, two million housing opportunities

    Let's put production housing to work solving the housing crisis.
    America has a housing problem. We don’t have enough homes, and too many of the homes we do have are too expensive. There is no single solution—and many of the proposed solutions will take years to yield results. But there is a powerful tool already in front of us: the production homebuilding...Read more

  • You, too, can be a small developer

    The Railyard in Lexington, Kentucky, is a case study in how a novice developer can take a significant project from concept to construction.
    Will Hanrahan, a marketing professional from Lexington, Kentucky, attended the Incremental Development Alliance (IncDev) workshop held in conjunction with CNU 32 in Cincinnati in 2024. Hanrahan found a one-acre former industrial site in his walkable Lexington neighborhood, listed on Facebook...Read more

  • Revisiting the Pantheon

    Author's note: My first visit to the Pantheon was fifty years ago. In the decades since, I have returned many times, and with each visit this extraordinary work of architecture and urbanism continues to reveal something new. I have drawn and studied the Pantheon repeatedly, returning to it as one...Read more

  • Building a town on a shoestring budget

    The requirement to be efficient and economical, and to minimize financial risk, has contributed to the character of the Charter Award Grand Prize-winning town of Seabrook.
    Seabrook is one of the outstanding new towns built by New Urbanists, deserving recognition alongside places like Seaside, Florida, but fewer people have seen it because of its relative isolation on the Washington coast. This year, Seabrook won the Grand Prize in the Charter Awards, and an On the...Read more