• New Urbanism's impact on small-to-midsize cities

    In small to mid-sized cities, the impact of New Urbanism can be dramatic.
    New Urbanism in a big city may get lost in the scale of the metropolis, although new urban street design, infill development, and regulatory practices like form-based codes have an impact. The new urban approach tends to blend in to a New York City or Chicago rather than shout “look at me.” In mid-...Read more

  • Five reasons why downtown revival is great

    Justin Fox of Montgomery, Alabama, has watched downtown return from the dead in the last quarter century. Montgomery has benefited from a form-based code and new urban planning, and, most of all, the nationwide resurgence in urban living. Fox, a Bloomburg writer, listed five reasons why this...Read more

  • Iconic warehouse becomes Beltline hub

    Ponce City Market in Atlanta unites four neighborhoods and brings high-tech businesses back to the city.
    Located in a crossroads of Atlanta, where the celebrated Beltline crosses Ponce de Leon Avenue, a former Sears warehouse has turned into one of the most striking urban redevelopments in the nation. Today, Ponce City Market is a new hub for high-tech industry growth in the city—and the retail center...Read more

  • Connecting a mountain town to the river

    Outside Buena Vista, Colorado, on the site of a former garbage dump, 40 acres of riverfront land sat vacant for years. It took two nature-loving developers—risktakers with a background as competitive kayakers—to see what it could become.
    Outside Buena Vista, Colorado, on the site of a former garbage dump, 40 acres of riverfront land sat vacant for years. It took two nature-loving developers—risktakers with a background as competitive kayakers—to see what it could become. Following a public design charrette run by Dover, Kohl &...Read more