• Cute cottages fit context, landscape, and budget

    South Street Cottages in Fayetteville, Arkansas, combine quality and design efficiency to make custom infill housing affordable. Range Co. won a 2026 CNU Charter Award in The Block, Street, and Building category.
    The South Street Cottages in Fayetteville, Arkansas, deliver small-scale, high-quality urban infill. By holistically developing and designing every detail of the neighborhood ensemble—from architecture and interiors to gardens and site planning—they blend quality and efficiency on a site just over...Read more

  • District transformation starts with streets, blocks

    La Plaza District looks like many suburban commercial areas, but a new street plan would enable incremental change into a mixed-use, walkable downtown gateway.
    La Plaza District in Rogers, Arkansas, looks similar, in many ways, to a thousand other suburban commercial districts—situated at the crossroads of two arterial roads. Around the 8 th and Walnut streets intersection are large strip malls—including one that used to house the nation’s first Walmart—...Read more

  • New beach town is a model for regional growth

    Seabrook, Washington, has created a model for Transect-based town design in an economically challenged region. Seabrook Land Company and Qamar & Associates won the 2026 Charter Award Grand Prize in the Neighborhood, District, and Corridor category.
    Seabrook, Washington, a much-admired new beach town with a traffic-calmed coastal road running through it, has now received the highest prize for a New Urbanist project. The 588-acre town perches on three promontories overlooking the Pacific Ocean, safe from tsunamis or the potential impacts of...Read more

  • Meet the 2026 Charter Awards winners

    15 winning projects embody and advance the principles of the Charter of the New Urbanism for the 26th year.
    Each year since 2001, the CNU Charter Awards have celebrated the best current work in New Urbanism from around the world. Winning projects highlight exemplary efforts put forth by local governments, developers, lenders, architects, urban designers, community activists, and others engaged in...Read more