• Walkable and drivable development

    These two revealing photos show "walkable urban" and "drivable suburban" development near downtown Cincinnati, from a recent report called Catalytic Development: (Re)creating walkable urban places . Amazingly, these photos are taken from a similar distance above the ground. The photo on the left...Read more

  • Learning from the past, planning for the future

    Research presented at CNU focused on transportation and architecture, with an eye toward inequality, social justice, and climate resilience.
    During any CNU Congress, its impossible to hear all the information provided or meet all the people who attend. Over several months, Public Square is highlighting people and ideas that CNU 26.Savannah attendees may have missed. The three hundred years of history were evident everywhere you looked...Read more
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    Avoiding planned isolation: Campus design, part 3

    Author’s note: This is the third 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. Traditional principles of human-scale urban design and planning...Read more

  • Walk over, Beethoven

    The survival of live classical music depends on many things, not the least of which is the design and urban planning around concert halls.
    During any CNU Congress, its impossible to hear all the information provided or meet all the people who attend. Over several months, Public Square is highlighting people and ideas that CNU 26.Savannah attendees may have missed. High culture is supported by walkable cities and human-scale...Read more