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5 Ways to Bring People Back to Downtown: Examples from Orlando, Florida
Submitted by globalsiteplans on Wed, 01/30/2013 - 9:17am
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Greening the Post-Disaster Response: The Sunshower House in New Orleans, Louisiana
Submitted by globalsiteplans on Thu, 01/24/2013 - 5:17pm
The following post comes courtesy of Global Site Plans' The Grid. CNU and Global Site Plans recently teamed up to syndicate Grid content, as its contingent of writers presents a view on the opportunities and issues of urbanization all across the world. CNU will carry select posts from the Grid dire... read more »
The Placement of the Automobile in Seattle vs. Phoenix
Submitted by globalsiteplans on Sat, 01/19/2013 - 11:35am
The following post comes courtesy of Global Site Plans' The Grid. CNU and Global Site Plans recently teamed up to syndicate Grid content, as its contingent of writers presents a view on the opportunities and issues of urbanization all across the world. CNU will carry select posts from the Grid dire... read more »
Why the rent is too high
Submitted by MLewyn on Thu, 07/05/2012 - 5:43pmToday I began my apartment search, looking at an apartment in the neighborhood next to mine (a neighborhood less high-income than Forest Hills, Queens, where I now live). In addition to being in a cheaper area than mine, the building is a fairly long walk to the subway (about 15 minutes, farth... read more »
Libertyville, IL: "Where Small Houses Mean Brisk Sales"
Submitted by Ben Schulman on Thu, 09/29/2011 - 1:37pmThe School Street Libertyville development in Libertyville, IL is the subject of the below piece from Marketwatch. Watch this community take off and design its way out of economic malaise:
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Gen Y Values Great Neighborhoods Over Great Homes
Submitted by Sam Newberg - J... on Tue, 12/07/2010 - 12:41pmHere is an interesting post at Urban Turf indicating that Gen Y prefers a great neighborhood over a great house.
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Rethinking Housing for a New Economy
Submitted by Colleen Foran on Wed, 10/20/2010 - 6:16pm
Will the recent economic crisis fundamentally change the way Americans view housing? New Urbanists are betting that it will – and are seizing the opportunity to direct the conversation towards the benefits of smaller, more sustainable housing.
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HUD to CNU: What do you you do when you get what you asked for?
Submitted by Katherine Gregor on Mon, 05/24/2010 - 4:07pmHUD officials made it clear at CNU 18 in Atlanta that ideas emerging from the Congress for New Urbanism have profoundly shaped federal policy, as it's now shifting under the Obama Administration.
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Illinois a signature away from adopting CNT's Housing + Transportation Affordability Index
Submitted by Jon Davis on Fri, 04/30/2010 - 1:04pmAlthough they're still dithering when it comes to fixing Illinois' sinking financial ship, our General Assembly did something right this session: On April 27, 2010, the House passed legislation ado... read more »
John Wasik's The Cul de Sac Syndrome: Give it to your lay friends
Submitted by logannash on Wed, 09/23/2009 - 8:22amJohn Wasik’s book The Cul-de-Sac Syndrome, published this year by Bloomberg Press, reads a bit like a college intro class about the crisis of the American home.
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