• Innovative, affordable homeownership in Brooklyn

    Belle Gardens uses creative design of small apartment buildings to provide affordable homeownership in a rowhouse neighborhood in Brooklyn. David Cunningham Architecture Planning won a 2026 CNU Charter Award in The Block, Street, and Building category.
    Along a transit-oriented corridor in Brooklyn, a design and development team is showing how to construct scattered-site, Missing Middle housing with context-sensitive architecture, and some buildings use single-stair construction. David Cunningham Architecture Planning won a 2026 Charter Award for...Read more

  • Workforce housing, grounded in trade-offs, for a famous ski resort

    The Northern South Park Neighborhood Plan and Code is providing desperately needed affordable housing in Jackson, Wyoming. Opticos Design won a 2026 CNU Charter Award in The Neighborhood, District, and Corridor category.
    Housing costs in Jackson, Wyoming, are among the highest in the US, with average home values of nearly $2 million, according to Zillow, and one-bedroom units rent for nearly $3,000. The affordability crisis in this mountain and ski resort town has worsened drastically over the last decade: in 2013...Read more

  • French Garden City changes ugly to beautiful

    The New “Cité-Jardins”— Le Plessis-Robinson, France, turned dismal blocks of modernist apartments into a beautiful new urban center. Atelier Xavier Bohl won a 2026 CNU Charter Award in The Neighborhood, District, and Corridor category.
    The New “Cité-Jardins”—the New Garden City—in Le Plessis-Robinson outside of Paris, France, is surely one of the most dramatic redevelopments in the history of New Urbanism. “This town did the impossible. It was able to transform itself from a gloomy, dispirited town dominated by concrete flats,...Read more

  • The hard work of New Urbanism, on the ground in Northwest Arkansas

    John McCurdy, director of community development for the city of Rogers, describes the pressure felt by CNU 34's host region to absorb growth, maintain character, and provide a better way of life for residents. The answer? The hard work of New Urbanism.
    New Urbanism has shown that it can produce better streets, neighborhoods, and civic places. The harder question is whether it can shape growth at the regional scale in ways that give great places a fighting chance; something felt acutely across the Northwest Arkansas region. If New Urbanism is to...Read more