• ‘Missing middle’ is key to housing America

    House-scale buildings with more than one living space can affordably shelter a broad range of families, revitalize communities, and profit builders throughout the 2020s and 2030s.
    America has a surplus of large-lot single-family housing, both in cities and suburbs, and housing construction in coming decades will increasingly revolve around “missing middle housing” and other multifamily buildings. The missing middle—low-rise, smaller-scale multiunit housing—offers great...Read more

  • America needs civility, and civic art can help

    If we acknowledge the value of civic art, we should consider that civic art, like human beings, should be held accountable and be afforded the opportunity, where necessary, to “mature” in the context of civil engagement.
    Civic space and civic art can play a vital role in the stability of societies. We inherently desire beautiful places to inhabit and be inspired by. We also desire doing so in the company of others because we have the common goal of living in a good and just society. A successful civic realm can...Read more

  • Urban design pioneer David Lewis dies at 98

    A CNU Athena Medal winner in 2007, David Lewis died last week at the age of 98. Lewis founded Urban Design Associates (UDA) in Pittsburgh with former student Ray Gindroz in 1964, a firm that pioneered concepts that later became known as New Urbanism. “If Jane Jacobs helped us to understand the...Read more

  • Charter Awards 2020 ceremony

    The 20th anniversary of the CNU Charter Awards was celebrated at CNU 28.A Virtual Gathering, with the presentation of the 2020 awards. Check out all of the projects in addition to a history of the awards.
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