• Reuse of buildings celebrates architecture and public space

    Adaptive reuse of building ensemble in Providence, Rhode Island, restores significant mixed-use structures, improves public space, and provides contextual architecture in a historic downtown.
    Providence, Rhode Island, has a history typical of a US East Coast city. “Providence’s pre-war building stock was of a particularly fine quality, built on a fine-grained network of streets and blocks,” notes Union Studio, an architecture firm based there. After World War II, the downtown was hit by...Read more

  • Walkable, mixed-use on a former suburban brownfield

    The Proscenium is a key part of one of the largest, coordinated, suburban retrofit endeavors anywhere in the US.
    The Indianapolis suburb of Carmel, Indiana, is creating a downtown on a 1.5-mile-long corridor that includes a wide range of development types and public spaces, reform of streets, and a unique rails-to-trails project. From a 21st Century planning and development point of view, it is one of the...Read more

  • Popular video posted on Cayalá

    New community in Guatemala City is inspiring to those who watch the short YouTube production.
    An excellent video on Cayalá, a new town in Guatemala City, is racking up the views on YouTube. The community, built in the last dozen years, won a Charter Award from CNU in 2021. The video, which describes Cayalá’s history and philosophy, was viewed 38,000 times since it was posted on Thursday,...Read more

  • Innovative village based on agrarian urbanism

    A mixed-use plan for a Central Florida blueberry farm seeks to build a sense of place around agricultural production, using Seaside as an urban design model.
    A blueberry farm in Groveland, Florida, has been designed for development as a village while maintaining current food production levels. The Lake Catherine Farms plan utilizes agrarian urbanism, where a mixed-use place maintains intensive agriculture on a portion of the land, while incorporating an...Read more