• Learning from others: The NTBA Roundtable

    Green urbanism, successional development, and the creation of unique, walkable places are among the National Town Builders Association topics.
    One of the critical elements of success for developers is to learn from the successes and failures of others— as opposed to having to learn from your own mistakes on your own dime. Today there are more opportunities to learn from others than at any other time in the past due to the multitude of...Read more

  • Comeback planned for commercial corridor

    CNU partnered with a small city and citizens to create a toolbox with immediate practical usefulness for a segment of the old Dixie Highway in Georgia.
    New urbanists explored the revitalization of a languishing 21-block, 2-plus-mile-long commercial thoroughfare in Brunswick, Georgia, in early March. Norwich Street, with high vacancy rates but good urban “bones,” has strong redevelopment potential for the coastal city of 16,000 people. In a joint...Read more

  • A good place revisited

    Some of Seaside’s leading architects return to a town both blessed and stressed by a crush of visitors.
    Note: Seaside was influential as a walkable resort town built from scratch, starting in the 1980s. Similar developments were planned and built on the Florida Panhandle in the last three decades. This special report chronicles Seaside's changes from the perspective of early designers and a writer...Read more

  • ‘Urbanizing the suburbs’ goes big

    Suburban Remix, a new book, reports on commercial development of mixed-use, walkable centers as a powerful force in the American landscape.
    “Without damaging a blade of grass on a single lawn” suburbs across North America can transform outmoded shopping centers and office parks “into a new generation of compact, dense, walkable, mixed-use, urban places that accommodate multiple dreams,” writes architect and urban designer David Dixon...Read more