• Restoring the heart of Treme

    Transforming the Claiborne Expressway in New Orleans to a boulevard like the historic Claiborne Avenue would reverse 20th Century damage to a primarily African-American neighborhood.
    Note: CNU's sixth biennial Freeways Without Futures report was released April 3. The Claiborne Expressway was one of ten highways listed. In 1966, French Quarter residents averted the proposed construction of an elevated expressway through their neighborhood. The primarily African-American Tremé...Read more

  • When freeways have no futures

    CNU releases is biennial report, Freeways Without Futures 2019, telling the tale of ten freeways in cities where the movement has spawned active campaigns for transformation.
    Freeway construction was a disaster for city neighborhoods in the 20th Century. Many neighborhoods were divided in two—their main streets demolished and businesses closed, disproportionately in minority communities. The African-American Tremé neighborhood in New Orleans is a good example, as the...Read more

  • Andean city is a model for water infrastructure and green space

    In Mendoza, Argentina, ancient acequias provide a green design element that transforms the city and has passed the test of time.
    Implementing green infrastructure widely in cities is never easy. Professionals and practitioners around the world face many challenges, including design standards (how to build the most efficient infrastructure?), regulatory (what policies are needed to promote green infrastructure throughout the...Read more

  • Good news, the era of sprawl is over

    That problem we’ve been having with inefficient, spread-out, unsustainable, automobile-dependent development patterns is solved at last.
    On Friday, the National Association of Sprawl Tasks and Initiatives (NASTI) met to discuss how to get closer parking spots to their meetings, only to discover that parking lots fronting power centers, commercial strip corridors, and the group's offices nationwide had magically disappeared—along...Read more