• An innovative missing middle design

    Mews homes are an affordable and flexible model for mid-block family housing.
    Note: Missing middle housing will be a topic at many sessions in CNU 26.Savannah , May 15-19. The Mews Homes are a prime example of what architect Daniel Parolek calls “missing middle housing”—a range of multi-unit or clustered housing types, compatible in scale with detached single-family homes,...Read more

  • The Swiss Army knife house

    The Side Hustle House has been designed to supplement primary income and evolve as household needs change.
    Note: Missing middle housing will be a topic at many sessions in CNU 26.Savannah , May 15-19. High housing costs and lack of new market rate workforce housing development has led to a serious dearth of housing options for young professionals and families on Cape Cod in southeastern Massachusetts...Read more

  • Using software to measure the UrbanFootprint

    A new urban tool is designed help cities, planners, and developers with scenario planning.
    Peter Calthorpe and his partner Joe DiStefano have a venture-capital funded startup designed to provide municipalities, non-governmental organizations, developers, and design and planning firms with a powerful cloud-based software tool for planning walkable, transit-served communities. Fast Company...Read more

  • Top-hat buildings

    While bemoaning another proposed flat-roofed box fronting on a new urban park in Charlotte, my city, I took a look at Central Park, Manhattan, on Google Maps 3-D and found all sorts of interesting, distinct yet similar, hats to buildings. These buildings were partly the creation of architectural...Read more