• Florida town adopts ‘Big Green Network’

    An Olmsted-inspired plan for Lake Wales, Florida, would revitalize the core, promote new growth in walkable neighborhoods, and preserve green space around the town.
    Lake Wales City Commission unanimously adopted Lake Wales Envisioned , a growth plan for the Central Florida community built around a network of green spaces, walkable neighborhoods, and a wide range of mobility options. The plan prepared by Dover, Kohl & Partners evolved from Lake Wales...Read more

  • Car-optional community is model for attainable housing

    The Finley Street Cottages in Atlanta show how attainable housing can be built without subsidy, enabled by incremental zoning reform.
    The “car-lite” Finley Street Cottages with zero off-street parking spaces are a model of attainable rental housing without subsidy. Kronberg Urbanists + Architects ( KUA ) designed a dozen living spaces built by Fortis Homes on two historic single-family lots in Atlanta. Urbanize Atlanta asks...Read more

  • Urban exodus and new urban reunion

    In the early 1980s, a young architect, Dhiru Thadani, saw a lecture by another young architect, Andres Duany, who was designing a new town called Seaside with his wife and partner, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk. Duany explained how the elements of cities decanted, one at a time, to the suburbs in the...Read more

  • Centerless village seeks developer of heart

    Aldea de Santa Fe, a new urban village in New Mexico, is fully built except for its mixed-use plaza. The time is ripe to complete this community.
    A new urban community has been built in Santa Fe, New Mexico, but it is still searching for its village center. Aldea de Santa Fe was created beginning in 2002. The 345-acre master-planned community took years in the planning and local government approval process, led by 14 property owners in the...Read more