• The next generation of urban mechanics

    Why mayors are increasingly acting like city planners
    Over the past five years, I’ve had the privilege of interviewing 20 mayors from all around the world, as part of an open-ended inquiry into how municipal leaders have managed the concurrent crises of an all-consuming pandemic, the accelerating impacts of climate change, and an agonizing lack of...Read more

  • Cities moving ahead with pre-approved house plans

    Pre-approved building plans can address the housing crisis by reducing regulatory friction around high-quality residential designs that fit a community’s vernacular.
    Public Square is highlighting top articles from 2024. Too-high housing prices nationwide are spurring significant innovation, and among the most popular policy reform are so-called “pre-approved” house plans, whereby cities offer a catalog of plans that builders or homeowners can choose with...Read more

  • CNU endorses Housing Supply and Affordability Act

    CNU has endorsed the Housing Supply and Affordability Act, introduced in the US House and Senate last week. The bill is sponsored by Representatives Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.), Brian Fitzpatrick (R-Pa.), Joyce Beatty (D-Ohio), and Senators Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) and Tim Kaine (D-Va.). As...Read more

  • Five hundred plans of Dover and Kohl

    This year’s Seaside Prize winners, Joseph Kohl and Victor Dover, discuss how street design is Victor's main issue and Joe will never put down his pen.
    Many urbanists are gathering at the iconic town of Seaside in Florida this weekend to award the annual Seaside Prize to the 2024 recipients, Victor Dover and Joseph Kohl, cofounders of Dover, Kohl & Partners in South Miami, Florida. Kohl and Dover have been leaders of New Urbanism since CNU...Read more