• 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

  • Highway expansion will induce demand, opponents say

    A $500 million widening project for Interstate 5 in Portland, Oregon, would lead to 10 to 17 million additional vehicle miles per year, according to a report in City Observatory . The website posted a series of articles opposed to the I-5 expansion in Portland’s Rose Quarter—an area of the city...Read more

  • Call for the best form-based codes

    The submission deadline is April 5 for this year’s Driehaus Award, to be announced at CNU 27 in Louisville.
    A jury of top urban designers and planners will select this year’s Driehaus Award: highlighting a great form-based code (or codes) that has been adopted in any year in any community in the world. The award showcases what's possible with good zoning and spotlights cities and towns that are pushing...Read more

  • A new proposal for historic preservation

    Why the key question, always, is this: "Is this this an upward trade?"
    The core problem that led to the modern preservation movement had been building since early in the Great Decline (1925-1945) and boiled over midway through the Dark Ages of Architecture (1945-1980) with the destruction of Penn Station. That problem was the fact that a new building replacing an...Read more