• Tackling concentrated poverty, without displacement

    Westside Evolves is a master plan to deal with the 20th Century model of public housing in Chattanooga, Tennessee. EJP Consulting Group won a Merit Award in the Emerging Project category of CNU's 2022 Charter Awards.
    Chattanooga is launching a highly ambitious plan to transform Westside, an impoverished neighborhood with the highest concentration of public housing in the city. Westside Evolves tackles the challenge of concentrated poverty, while ensuring little or no displacement, through a $680 million, 10-...Read more

  • New Urbanism in the New Urban Agenda: Threads of an unfinished (global) reformation

    The two charters represent a “paradigm shift” in the shaping of cities and towns, away from machinery and machine thinking, and back towards people. A May conference in Paris will explore them both.
    In 1922—a century ago this year—a young Swiss architect named Charles-Édouard Jeanneret, better known as Le Corbusier, made a radical proposal for the restructuring of Paris and other cities. His utopian plan for a “Ville Contemporaine” (contemporary city) featured wide streets dedicated to...Read more

  • Station plan highlights the strength of an artfully drawn vision

    West Chester Market Station is a practical and appealing plan for a disused rail stop west of Philadelphia. Notre Dame architecture student Benjamin Shelton won a Student Charter Award in the Block, Street, and Building category of CNU 2022 Charter Awards
    The design of a market and square at a disused regional rail (SEPTA) stop in historic West Chester Borough, Pennsylvania, won the 2022 Student Charter Award. The exceptionally well-detailed plan combines a variety of existing buildings with new, classical buildings. Benjamin Shelton, a graduate...Read more

  • Rebuilding a neighborhood in beleaguered Beirut

    The Port and the City offers hope for a neighborhood in Beirut that is recovering from a major disaster. A University of Miami School of Architecture team won a Student Merit Award in CNU's 2022 Charter Awards.
    In August of 2020, one of the largest human-caused, nonnuclear explosions in history destroyed the port and adjacent neighborhoods in Beirut, Lebanon. A University of Miami team drafted a plan to rebuild Karantina, one of the damaged neighborhoods, with an urban and architectural vision based on...Read more