• The beauty of small towns

    Galena, Illinois, is often pictured when urbanists want to show the ideal American main street. It was also listed as number 35 in a recent Architectural Digest report on 50 Most Beautiful Small Towns in America . While this list is subjective, it does highlight the treasure of America’s small...Read more

  • Post office moved, town solid

    A worker October 17 puts the finishing touches on the 33-year-old Seaside, Florida, post office, which was moved to a new location on the town's Central Square. Someone uses the facility later that day. Hurricane Michael landed on the Florida Panhandle as a Category 4 storm on October 10, the most...Read more

  • A map of every building in America

    A new database makes every single structure in the United States visible
    The New York Times has put out a fascinating set of maps revealing building patterns across the United States, using Microsoft's Building Footprints , the first comprehensive database of the built environment in the nation. Using the data, the NYT team assembled portraits of the nation's...Read more

  • The Arc of Engagement

    CNU recently released the Users' Guide to Zoning Reform, which offers a new path to improving land-use codes.
    The Arc of Engagement is an image from the Users' Guide to Zoning Reform , representing an incremental path toward form-coding, an important advancement in form-based codes. The term form-based code was only created 15 years ago, and this concept has already been adopted in hundreds of...Read more