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Waltz Across Texas

This post orginally appeared on RGordonArchitect, the architecture and design blog of Chicago-based architect Robert Gordon.

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River walk birdseye

CITY SPOTLIGHT: San Bernardino, California Part 2

This post is part of a new series on the CNU Salons, CITY SPOTLIGHT. City Spotlight shines a light on the latest news, developments and initiatives occurring in cities and towns where CNU members live and work.

Bringing New Urbanism To Ontario: A New Chapter

This article was originally posted in Novae Res Urbis, Vol. 16 No. 13.

See also: cnu.org/ontario

The pros and cons of elevator suburbs

As I was looking through my Twitter feed last night, I noticed an article on Canada's "elevator suburbs"- suburban streets (often, but not always, in low-income areas) filled with mid-and high-rise apartment buildings and shops, with lower-density housing on side streets.  How do these places stack up (pun intended) from an urbanist perspective?