• Leveraging proximity to downtown, physical assets, and culture

    An initiative for Westside Atlanta—an area replete with civil rights history—combines new housing and public realm improvements with a wide range of social and philanthropic programs designed to help legacy residents to thrive while the area redevelops.
    Atlanta’s Historic Westside has a history rich with achievement and activism. The area is home to five Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. lived there during the peak years of the Civil Rights Movement. The Historic Westside boasts many civic and cultural...Read more

  • Extending design excellence in a historic city

    A large-scale development raises the bar for new design in Charleston, while re-connecting neighborhoods and anchoring a 1.6-mile-long linear park.
    Charleston is one of the best-preserved historic cities in America, and architecturally sensitive redevelopment has fueled an economic revival of downtown since the 1970s. The Upper King Street Gateway project extends the design excellence north with a large-scale, mixed-use development creating...Read more

  • ‘Geoaccounting’ makes the case for relocating Interstate

    The importance of downtown and walkable urbanism is paramount to Syracuse, New York, and other cities, made visible through this graphic.
    Note: Urban3 won a 2019 CNU Merit Award with an Emerging Project designation for its “ geoaccounting ” method of analyzing urban places. All of 2019 Charter Awards will be presented at CNU 27 in Louisville on June 14. I came across this remarkable image created by Joe Minicozzi and Urban3, a firm...Read more

  • Enabling a diverse Southwestern county to grow and prosper

    Doña Ana County, a culturally rich but economically challenged part of New Mexico, is staking its future on walkable communities.
    The beauty of Doña Ana County, with the Organ mountains and the Rio Grande, the fields of chile and orchards of pecans, is stunning. Yet many of those who live and work in this landscape are challenged economically—almost 26 percent of the residents live in poverty, and a quarter of the population...Read more