• A suburban town looks at retrofit options

    With transit on the way, Amherst, New York, reimagines its future.
    Amherst, a 122,000-population suburban town adjacent to the City of Buffalo, New York, is going through a transition. Buffalo's mass transit line is planned to be extended into Amherst, presenting an opportunity for mixed-use, transit-oriented nodes. This suburban retrofit opportunity would...Read more

  • Post office moved, town solid

    A worker October 17 puts the finishing touches on the 33-year-old Seaside, Florida, post office, which was moved to a new location on the town's Central Square. Someone uses the facility later that day. Hurricane Michael landed on the Florida Panhandle as a Category 4 storm on October 10, the most...Read more

  • Connecting to reclaim communities

    CNU's 2018 Transportation Summit united local groups that battle to remove disruptive urban highway segments
    “Caused folks around here a lot of heartburn.” With this phrase, Amy Stelly described the ongoing anguish that the Claiborne Expressway has caused for the members of the predominantly African-American community of New Orleans’ Tremé neighborhood. Ten years ago, Stelly helped found the Claiborne...Read more

  • Overselling utopia? The urbanist’s dilemma

    Do we risk overselling smart growth, placemaking or other urbanist concepts today, without taking heed of social and market realities?
    Generally speaking, the description of any Utopia that involves many details is apt to be an unconvincing way to present a principle which can be applied effectively in practice with immense flexibility as to details … —Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr. to Henry James, July 10, 1924, Papers, Regional Plan...Read more