• Civic space designed to reveal a dark history

    The Shockoe Project tells an important story about slavery while providing public space that links downtown to an adjacent neighborhood. Baskervill won a Merit Award in the Block, Street, and Building category of the 2025 CNU Charter Awards.
    The Shockoe Project is transforming a historically important but underutilized 10-acre site in Richmond, Virginia, into a nationally significant remembrance of the suffering and struggles of enslaved Americans. The project is planned for the Shockoe Valley, just east of downtown, on a site with a...Read more

  • Providence mayor promotes urban housing policy

    In an interview, Brett Smiley discusses sustainable, equitable, urban housing policy, and other topics that will be covered at CNU33 in Providence, Rhode Island, June 11-14.
    CNU returns to Providence next month for our 33rd annual Congress. We are so excited to revisit this city, at the heart of a region that has been on a long path of addressing urban challenges, familiar to many across this country, with New Urbanist solutions. Actualizing change on a city-wide scale...Read more

  • Transit-oriented social and economic hub

    Tyler Station transforms an eyesore and environmental liability into a dynamic activity center supported by transit. Options Real Estate Investments won a Merit Award in the Block, Street, and Building category of the 2025 CNU Charter Awards.
    Tyler Station is a 110,000-square-foot adaptive reuse of a 1920s factory on a formerly polluted site in Dallas’s Oak Cliff neighborhood, adjacent to a DART light rail station. The project brings a range of creative and productive uses to the site, contributing to a threefold increase in station...Read more

  • Sustainable new timber-frame fabric in Guatemala

    Construyendo Guatemala: Tradition and Technology combines creative infill design and construction. Deisy Velasquez, University of Maryland, won a Student Merit Award in The Neighborhood, District, and Corridor category of the 2025 Charter Awards.
    Construyendo Guatemala proposes low-rise, high-density mixed housing, a community center, open spaces, and a school for a 10-acre infill site in Antigua. Designer Deisy Velasquez analyzed the urban fabric in Antigua, founded nearly 500 years ago in 1543. The city’s layout in a 5-by-5 block grid,...Read more