• Town center links USC and South LA

    University builds a transformative development in an area that hasn't seen much investment in recent decades.
    The New York Times calls USC Village, which opened in 2017, "an ambitious test of a public-private partnership hoping to remake a historically underserved neighborhood." The $700 million project designed by Harley Ellis Devereaux creates housing for 2,500 University of Southern California students...Read more

  • Memphis warehouse redevelopment tops Charter Awards

    Crosstown Concourse, the redevelopment of a 1.3 million square foot former Sears distribution center that sat empty for decades among run-down Memphis neighborhoods, won the Grand Prize in CNU’s 17 th annual Charter Awards, announced in Savannah, Georgia, over the weekend. This year, the Congress...Read more

  • A small ‘c’ conservative case for urbanism

    Brainerd, Minnesota, Lafayette, Louisiana, and place called Jimmy's Pizza highlight the advantages of incremental design and development—and show why car-oriented development turns out to be a very poor investment.
    Note: This article is a summary of talk given by Chuck Marohn of Strong Towns at an event that CNU co-sponsored a while back with The American Conservative . View the whole talk here. No society in history has ever done what we have done: taken thousands of years of history and knowledge about how...Read more

  • Alexander’s Oregon patterns: Campus design, part 2

    This is the second in a series of ten essays that present innovative techniques for designing and repairing a corporate or university campus. These tools combine New Urbanist principles with Alexandrian design methods. Even though Christopher Alexander is widely known for his “Pattern Language”, an...Read more