• The Arc of Engagement

    CNU recently released the Users' Guide to Zoning Reform, which offers a new path to improving land-use codes.
    The Arc of Engagement is an image from the Users' Guide to Zoning Reform , representing an incremental path toward form-coding, an important advancement in form-based codes. The term form-based code was only created 15 years ago, and this concept has already been adopted in hundreds of...Read more

  • Keys to shared streets by John Massengale

    When drivers slow down to 20 mph or below, they are less likely to hit people and much less likely to seriously injure or kill people if they do hit them—that's one insight that Dutch designers and engineers learned when they began to implement shared spaces, according to a New York Times article...Read more

  • Demographics of CNU

    CNU had its biggest Congress ever in Savannah, and the above graphic by Jay Shepley shows how the attendees broke down into various demographic segments. The attendees were highly diverse in terms of professions and ages, spanning a wide range of occupations in the public and private sectors. This...Read more

  • If houses were designed like car-oriented cities

    I found this satirical floor plan on the 21st Century City Twitter feed —illustrating the absurdity of automobile-oriented community design. Just like the heart of many cities and towns built since 1950, there is more space for vehicles than people. Moreover, everything is accessed from the...Read more