• 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

  • The map of CNU Congresses

    CNU created a map (see below for interactive version) of all of the past and upcoming Congresses . The map offers an overview at the history of CNU, the geographic range of the Congresses, and the issues that concerned the Congress attendees in years past (click on locations for details). The first...Read more

  • Walking to school, three generations

    Urban designer Victor Dover asked an audience of adults at a public event three questions about walking to school that reflect how our built environment has changed over the course of three generations in the US. Above are the results. Children used to regularly walk to school, which gave them...Read more