• Portland zoning reform is designed to boost affordable housing

    The city's Residential Infill Project is designed to promote missing middle and workforce housing.
    The City of Portland, Oregon, adopted far-reaching zoning reform in mid-August that will boost missing-middle housing and affordability. The Sightline Institute didn't hold back its praise, calling it “The best low-density zoning reform in US history.” The city's Residential Infill Project will...Read more

  • A federal Highways to Boulevards program is the infrastructure project a healthy and equitable America needs

    Editor's note: Join us Tuesday, August 25th, for On the Park Bench: Equity-Driven Planning, a 2 p.m. (Eastern) webinar with Mitchell Silver, New York City Parks Commissioner, who will exhibit a variety of ways that equity, inclusivity, and diversity can enhance and enrich the urban realm. Register...Read more

  • New Krier-designed town approved

    Leon Krier, the 74-year-old architect who influenced CNU founders and designed Poundbury, has another major project in Southern England.
    A new town in Southern England, planned by influential urban theorist Leon Krier, has been approved by local authorities. Fawley Waterside, to be built on a large brownfield site of a closed-down power station, will house up to 3,500 people and a million square feet of non-residential uses. Thirty-...Read more

  • ‘Missing middle’ is key to housing America

    House-scale buildings with more than one living space can affordably shelter a broad range of families, revitalize communities, and profit builders throughout the 2020s and 2030s.
    America has a surplus of large-lot single-family housing, both in cities and suburbs, and housing construction in coming decades will increasingly revolve around “missing middle housing” and other multifamily buildings. The missing middle—low-rise, smaller-scale multiunit housing—offers great...Read more