• Voters choose transit in two sprawling cities

    Successful ballot initiatives in Nashville, Tennessee, and Columbus, Ohio, have the potential to greatly improve mobility and transit in two of America’s fastest growing, automobile-dominated cities.
    In the excitement and consternation of the national election in November, it was easy to miss some good news at the ballot box in a pair of America’s fastest-growing big cities. Citizens in the Nashville and Columbus regions voted by healthy margins to tax themselves to invest in transportation...Read more

  • Bringing back building types: conservation biology, or Jurassic Park?

    How does our world now compare to the conditions under which prehistoric creatures or historic building cultures thrived?
    You have to admit it: vanished species that used to fill the globe have a certain appeal. From the time I was a four-year-old playing with dinosaurs to my current work with Missing Middle Housing, I’ve been fascinated by life from the past and continually asking why certain things seem to have...Read more

  • Main Street brings New Urbanism to New York State

    Eastdale Village in Poughkeepsie crosses a US highway with a four-block Main Street, drawing visitors with a strong sense of place.
    A new four-block Main Street crosses US Route 44 about two miles east of Poughkeepsie, New York. Eastdale Village is a first-of-its-kind development in Upstate New York, which boasts some of the nation’s best old urbanism, but little New Urbanism. The development required give-and-take with the...Read more

  • US DOT releases ‘Climate Strategies that Work’

    The federal government offers a resource of 27 options, building on the recommendations of CNU.
    The US DOT has released the Climate Strategies that Work Playbook , building on its 2023 National Blueprint for Transportation Decarbonization, recognizing the role of land use and transportation planning in climate change. CNU provided insights and recommendations for a report to Congress that...Read more