• Suburban segregation by income

    Note: Andres Duany will present core principles of the New Urbanism on May 16 at CNU 26.Savannah . This image from Andres Duany's standard lecture that he gave from the late 1980s to early 2000s illustrates how society is sliced in segments through conventional suburban design. Duany's lecture was...Read more

  • A connected and walkable suburb

    After two decades of development, Orenco Station offers urban living at a transit station west of Portland.
    Orenco Station in Hillsboro, Oregon, was covered by fruit orchards and farmland for much of the 20th Century. But “Silicon Forest” took root in the 1980s, and Intel built its largest facility in the world in the Ronler Acres Campus. Hillsboro adopted the Orenco Station Master Plan that guided...Read more

  • Seattle transit policy targets affordable housing

    As Sound Transit expands light rail far into the suburbs around Seattle, a policy allows the disposition of excess land for affordable transit-oriented development—consistent with the goals of a CNU report.
    As suburban poverty levels rise in most US metro areas, Seattle’s Sound Transit has adopted a policy that enable affordable housing to be developed on surplus properties near transit stations. In the report Combating the Suburbanization of Poverty , CNU urged bold measures to link the Puget Sound’s...Read more

  • The ‘Jacobs Curve’ and gentrification

    While gentrification is sometimes villainized, the "Jacob's Curve" suggests that there is an optimum level of reinvestment in neighborhoods that creates more diversity of place. The drawing, by planner and researcher Michael Mehaffy, is named after Jane Jacobs, who argued for revitalization in ways...Read more