• 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

  • New college town for South Bend

    The outcome of two decades of planning and implementation, Eddy Street is one of the more impressive new urban neighborhoods built adjacent to a university.
    South Bend’s Eddy Street neighborhood, located just south of the University of Notre Dame, was completed in 2020 after a 20-year process of planning and implementation. The result is one of the most impressive new “college towns” in the US. The 48-acre neighborhood includes a main street that has...Read more

  • Visualizing 30 years of growth in Charlotte’s core

    As Charlotte continues to grow, let’s take a look back through the past 30 years via Google Earth to see just how far the Queen City has come. Images are via GoogleEarth and are 1993, 2002, 2012, and 2023 captures with a couple of older bonus images from Brooklyn Village. Uptown You know those...Read more