• Car-free hill town is designed in nature

    Beach Town, Las Catalinas creates a rich network of intimate urbanism on a steep site in Costa Rica. Charles Brewer, Douglas Duany, TSW Design, and the Las Catalinas team won a 2022 Charter Award in the Neighborhood, District, and Corridor category.
    The 21-acre Beach Town in Las Catalinas, Costa Rica, combines the intricate urbanism of a European hill town with the architecture of Latin America and the development programming and process of a US new urbanist neighborhood. The first neighborhood to be built in Las Catalinas, Beach Town is a...Read more

  • How Seaside’s public space has improved over time

    The Evolution of the Civic Realm in Seaside has been part of the ongoing transformation of a classic new urban town to meet current needs. Thadani Architects + Urbanists won a 2022 Charter Award in the Neighborhood, District, and Corridor category.
    Successional development does not only refer to buildings, according to architect Dhiru Thadani, as Seaside, Florida, makes a case that the civic realm can be steadily improved to respond to changing circumstances and present-day needs. In recent years, these improvements have included: Seaside’s...Read more

  • Revitalizing a stigmatized neighborhood

    El Punto Neighborhood Revitalization is a comprehensive, large-scale effort to lift up an immigrant enclave in Salem, MA. North Shore Community Development Coalition won a 2022 Charter Award in the Neighborhood, District, and Corridor category.
    A community-driven initiative has revitalized a disadvantaged neighborhood in Salem, Massachusetts, through public art, affordable housing, historic rehabilitation, and wide-ranging community projects. The transformation of The Point, a 50-acre immigrant neighborhood with a large Dominican...Read more

  • Endearing and enduring, cottage court is designed to last a millennium

    The Borough is a strikingly beautiful group of houses that brings an abandoned, resilient construction technique back to life. Clay Chapman won a Charter Award in the Block, Street, and Building category of CNU's 2022 Charter Awards.
    Many traditional neighborhood developments are laboratories of ideas, and one of the more radical experiments today can be found in simple brick houses in Carlton Landing, Oklahoma. Clay Chapman has built 18 of these strikingly beautiful homes, with foot-thick brick-and-mortar walls, in the new...Read more