• Innovative townhouse layout promotes community

    Daybreak Mews is a prime example of how “missing middle” housing types can expand choices while adding to the urban fabric of a larger neighborhood.
    The design of Daybreak Mews in South Jordan, Utah, was driven by a need to provide attainable housing—achieved by efficiently using 3.2 acres on the interior of two blocks within walking distance of a light rail station. The 147 houses, ranging from 900 to 1,400 square feet at a density of just...Read more

  • ‘Geoaccounting’ makes the case for relocating Interstate

    The importance of downtown and walkable urbanism is paramount to Syracuse, New York, and other cities, made visible through this graphic.
    Note: Urban3 won a 2019 CNU Merit Award with an Emerging Project designation for its “ geoaccounting ” method of analyzing urban places. All of 2019 Charter Awards will be presented at CNU 27 in Louisville on June 14. I came across this remarkable image created by Joe Minicozzi and Urban3, a firm...Read more

  • Design communities so that neighbors can borrow sugar

    This image is from an illustrative article called This Is How Borrowing Things From Our Neighbors Strengthens Society, by Sarah Lazarovic in Yes! journal. Here’s the tagline: Research shows that small talk and casual connections create happy communities and less-lonely individuals. Although there...Read more

  • Poynton video: A tribute to Hamilton-Baillie

    Ben Hamilton-Baillie, a British architect and “shared space” advocate, died of cancer last month at the age of 63. He was a plenary speaker at CNU 22 in Buffalo in 2014, where he urged the audience of a thousand people to “take out all of the traffic signals in every city in the US — it would be a...Read more