• Target bets big on urban stores

    Big box retailer evolves; chases customers to walkable urban locations.
    Target is expanding its new "flexible format" urban stores in downtown locations. Two recently opened, with another set to open in early 2017, in Center City, Philadelphia. A flexible format store recently opened in Tribeca, Manhattan. The mega-retailer is moving into large and mid-size cities and...Read more

  • A small Michigan city embraces walkable urbanism

    Detroit has captivated the nation in its decline, bankruptcy, and booming downtown rebirth, but there is more to urbanism in Southeastern Michigan than the Motor City.
    When CNU meets at its annual Congress in Detroit this coming June, participants will also examine places like Birmingham, located four miles to the north of the primary city. After three decades of 20th century population loss and commercial decline, Birmingham, Michigan, committed to building a...Read more