• Centerless village seeks developer of heart

    Aldea de Santa Fe, a new urban village in New Mexico, is fully built except for its mixed-use plaza. The time is ripe to complete this community.
    A new urban community has been built in Santa Fe, New Mexico, but it is still searching for its village center. Aldea de Santa Fe was created beginning in 2002. The 345-acre master-planned community took years in the planning and local government approval process, led by 14 property owners in the...Read more

  • 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