• Placemaking is going places: 20 years of transportation-related award winners

    From transit-oriented development to Tactical Urbanism, transportation themes have resounded through the first two decades of the CNU Charter Awards.
    The Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU) Charter Awards, which highlight the best in urban design in the United States and around the world, have celebrated good interdisciplinary design since 2001. As the Charter Awards head into their 20th year, a reflection on some of our past awards shows how...Read more
  • Midwest cities invest in transit

    Three heartland cities are investing to strengthen the downtown core and build a framework for regional multimodal transportation.
    Three Midwest cities—Indianapolis, Kansas City, and Columbus, Ohio—are expanding their transit systems to become more competitive with bigger cities that have legacy transit systems, according to City Journal . Given the limited resources and automobile-oriented infrastructure, technology, and...Read more