• Vermont is bringing back missing middle housing

    The Vermont Homes for All Toolkit comprehensively promotes Missing Middle housing for more diverse and affordable living in the Green Mountain State.
    Eighteen years ago, when Lilli West got into the real estate business, she saw a need. Back then, it was short sales and foreclosures—and she grew her business at an unlikely time when real estate agents were leaving the industry left and right. Today, as the owner of Maple Leaf Realty, the largest...Read more

  • Linear park alleviates social and environmental ills

    Bulevar de Oriente converts a former sewage way into an exceedingly elegant linear park and a model for global green corridors. Alcuadrado Arquitectos SAS + Secretaria de Vivienda social y hábitat won the 2024 CNU Grand Prize Charter Award.
    Cali, Colombia's third most populous city, includes hundreds of thousands of households living in precarious circumstances. Many lack public services, mobility infrastructure, and adequate parks and open space. To address these problems, programs aim to improve public space in marginalized...Read more

  • Extraordinary vision for urban church site

    Revitalization of St. Patrick's and St. Hedwig's Parishes envisions a European-like village between churches in South Bend. The University of Notre Dame won a 2024 CNU Student Grand Prize Charter Award in the Neighborhood, District, and Corridor category.
    What to do with church properties, many facing dwindling congregations, is an issue across urban America. A team of University of Notre Dame graduate architecture students produced a vision for neighboring Catholic churches in South Bend, Indiana, that is extraordinary and powerful in its...Read more

  • Honoring neighborhood history, building a garden

    Winthrop Family Historical Garden redesigns an underutilized green space as a beautiful garden and public gathering spot in Chicago, Illinois. MKSK won a 2024 CNU Charter Award in the Block, Street, and Building category.
    In a walkable, growing neighborhood in the Northside of Chicago, a community garden tells an important historical narrative while providing a multi-use gathering space. Due to restrictive covenants, the 4600 block of Winthrop Avenue was the only area of the Uptown neighborhood where Black residents...Read more