• 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

  • Actions for rebuilding health and opportunity

    A Pandemic Toolkit describes 22 actions that local governments can take to safely jumpstart their economies.
    In the last seven months, many of us have turned our attention to cataloguing and collecting planning practices of how cities, towns, and suburbs are responding to COVID-19 in an attempt to rebuild health and opportunity. Thanks to those of you who contributed to the PlaceMakers Pandemic Response...Read more

  • Is HOD the next TOD?

    Hospital-oriented development, with parallels to transit-oriented development, should be the next big thing.
    Compact, mixed-use, walkable communities have been revolutionizing the land use and real estate development paradigm in the Unites States over the past 30-years. Transit-oriented development, innovation districts, university town centers, main street retail, “healthy communities,” and revitalized...Read more