• Main street as a microcosm of the world

    With a stronger identity and coordinated planning for Woodlawn Avenue, Beechmont may be the next hot neighborhood in Louisville.
    CNU partnered with a strong nonprofit, the Center for Neighborhoods (CFN), on a highly productive Legacy Project to restore and reimagine the future of Woodlawn Avenue, the commercial heart of the Beechmont neighborhood in Louisville, Kentucky. “In three days, we got to the point of fully focusing...Read more

  • Mixed-use center is next step for revitalization

    CNU Legacy project in Russell neighborhood in West Louisville listens to residents, drawing their dreams.
    A mixed-use center focused on locally owned, food-oriented businesses, renewed streetscapes, community uses, and new housing opportunities is a key to revitalizing Russell, a neighborhood in West Louisville that has experienced decades of disinvestment. A CNU Legacy Project, sponsored by community...Read more

  • The urban dimensions of climate change: Lessons for a New Urbanism

    Reining in sprawl is still the most important first step in transitioning to a more benign kind of settlement, and more responsible planning. Reduction of greenhouse gas emissions is only one of many benefits—but it is a significant one.
    There is an intriguing paradox within the inventories of greenhouse gas emissions per capita—the emissions that each of us generates through our daily activities of moving, interacting, and consuming resources. Those who live in an average settlement in the United States consume and emit on average...Read more

  • Walkable Glenwood Park nears completion

    The new neighborhood by the Atlanta Beltline offers a well-designed, robust mix of housing, uses, and public spaces.
    One of the last parcels is being developed in Glenwood Park, one of the more successful new urban neighborhoods to be built in the last two decades. Curbed Atlanta published a piece about the four-story mixed-use building on the corner of Faith Avenue and Bill Kennedy Way in Atlanta, and it seems...Read more