• Car-free, mobility-rich urbanism becoming a reality

    Designers of Culdesac developments in Tempe and Atlanta report progress in creating a built environment for shared mobility, as the first residents move in to the Arizona project.
    The first mobility-rich, car-free (at least in residential areas) Culdesac community is now becoming occupied, and the public spaces and buildings are living up to the attention-grabbing designs and renderings, architect and urban designer Daniel Parolek of Opticos Design told CNU. The first...Read more
  • Assessing Poundbury at 30

    In the year of its founder’s coronation, a conference of key partners this fall will examine in detail the pioneering New Urbanist development’s many lessons.
    There is a new town in England whose achievements might draw the envy of any American planner: a beautiful walkable layout with ample provisions for walking, cycling and transit as well as the car; 35 percent permanent affordable housing, “pepper-potted” indistinguishably across the town, and not...Read more
  • Building tall where it counts

    Embracing neighborhood change to address the housing crisis.
    America is experiencing a housing crisis! While this crisis affects communities across the country, it is most pronounced in and near a few major cities. There, housing supply has failed to keep up with growing demand for decades, resulting in prices that are out of range for even middle-class...Read more
  • Project shows potential of inner-block development

    Quiet, intimate urban places in the center of blocks may be built if land-use regulations allow.
    Earl's Court is an infill development in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, that is only a little over an acre in size. And yet, this tiny mixed-use project points to an opportunity for new urbanists going forward. In recent decades, urbanists have focused mostly on using architecture to define the...Read more