• Buffalo needs a true boulevard to replace Skyway traffic

    Current NYSDOT proposals prioritize the high—speed movement of automobiles—the design should be improved to focus on safety and community.
    Do you have a few minutes to spare for the City of Buffalo? Two minutes, in fact. That’s all the additional travel time drivers will face if the NYS Department of Transportation designs a boulevard with a speed limit of 30 mph instead of 40 mph to replace the Buffalo Skyway. At the end of August,...Read more

  • New urban pioneer Dan Camp is gone

    Developer of the Cotton District succumbs to Covid in late October.
    A pioneer of the New Urbanism, Dan Camp, died of the coronavirus in late October. Camp, 79, developer of the Cotton District in Starkville, Mississippi, was a former shop teacher who rehabilitated a dilapidated neighborhood near a closed-down Cotton Mill, between Mississippi State University and...Read more

  • New urban design in the post-pandemic era

    Cities and towns are facing a new reality, according to one of the founders of CNU. This calls for new designs that violate some of the long-held design doctrines of New Urbanism—but have the same social intention.
    The pandemic jeopardizes many of the core concepts of New Urbanism, according to architect and urbanist Andres Duany. People are now suspicious of density, transit, face-to-face retail, social “third places,” open communities, and in-person community engagement, says Duany, who spoke in CNU’s...Read more

  • What will Biden do for urbanism?

    The Biden plan mentions code reform, transit, smart growth, underserved communities, and generally big investments in affordable housing.
    Barring some highly unlikely turn of events, Joe Biden will become president in January. The question for many planners and urban designers: What will the new administration mean for urbanism? Cities will be facing many challenges in 2021. When the dust settles on the pandemic, we don’t know what...Read more