• Complete streets: Visible counter to Covid recession?

    The US needs public works investments to help main streets.
    The pandemic’s full negative impact on main streets is unknown, but significant. Many storefronts have closed and small businesses are hurting. We don’t know how many local employers will succumb to the economic hardships that communities have experienced. Meanwhile, 2020 has been a year of eerily...Read more

  • Addison Circle expanded with TOD

    A $500 million transit-oriented development will connect to the well-known new urban development as DART moves forward with a rail corridor.
    An early and influential new urbanist project, Addison Circle in Addison, Texas, is being expanded. The commercial real estate firm Cushman & Wakefield was engaged this week by the Town of Addison to solicit proposals for a $500 million transit-oriented development (TOD) adjacent to Addison...Read more

  • The launch of Freeways Without Futures 2021

    Know a highway that’s got to go? Submit a nomination before November 25, 2020.
    This week the Congress for the New Urbanism launches our call for nominations to the seventh edition of its Freeways Without Futures report. Since its inception in 2008, our biennial report has covered over 30 different urban highways that burden the communities around them with significant health...Read more

  • Is public architecture dysfunctional?

    A new poll shows that Americans prefer traditional architecture to later modern styles in public buildings, and researchers are finding explanations in neuroscience.
    Americans prefer traditional architecture over modernist architecture by a nearly three to one in a recent national poll . The Harris Poll survey called “Americans’ Preferred Architecture for Federal Buildings,” sponsored by National Civic Art Society Survey, was released this month. The preference...Read more