• #EveryPlaceCounts Kicks off in Spokane, WA

    The program helps communities repair the urban fabric in neighborhoods bifurcated by interstate highways.
    Today, the USDOT Ladders of Opportunity #EveryPlaceCounts Design Challenge kicks off its first workshop in Spokane, WA. Created by Secretary Foxx, the #EveryPlaceCounts program helps communities repair and reconnect neighborhoods bifurcated by interstate highways. CNU is assisting by providing...Read more

  • CNU and USDOT Announce Every Place Counts Design Challenge Winners

    This federally-funded initiative will reconnect neighborhoods bisected by urban highways and aging transportation infrastructure.
    In cities across America, aging urban highways impose serious consequences on health, mobility, and opportunity in communities. For decades, residents of neighborhoods bisected by highways have suffered from higher levels of air and water pollution, decreased economic opportunity, limited mobility...Read more

  • A dead mall becomes a downtown for a sprawling suburb

    Although Lakewood, Colorado, is the fifth largest city in the state, until the last decade the city had no true downtown. Instead, the Denver suburb boasted one of the country’s largest indoor shopping malls, built in the 1960s—but by 2000, that mall was largely vacant. That mall has been converted...Read more

  • The real cost of six million people in a suburban swamp

    The recent deluge that inundated Houston and left it looking like Bangladesh reveals the myopia that distorts Joel Kotkin’s latest book, The Human City: Urbanism for the Rest of Us . A stalwart defender of drivable suburbanism, Houston is Kotkin’s poster child, “America’s Opportunity City.” What he...Read more