• Hierarchy of centers for the 15-minute city

    I recently spoke on a panel discussing the 15-minute city, and the cool graphic above was presented showing a hierarchy of mixed-use centers throughout the City of Portland, Oregon. This kind of analysis would help many cities plan to achieve an urban environment where owning an automobile is...Read more

  • Walkable downtown created from a suburban office complex

    Doral, known for a golf course and sprawl, has partnered with a developer to create a walkable downtown on the site of a former nondescript office park, reusing existing infrastructure.
    When incorporated 20 years ago, Doral, Florida, consisted of a collection of gated subdivisions, shopping centers, warehouse and industrial districts, a world-renowned golf course, and notoriously clogged arterial roads, according to DPZ CoDesign. There was no downtown or walkable neighborhood of...Read more

  • Innovative village based on agrarian urbanism

    A mixed-use plan for a Central Florida blueberry farm seeks to build a sense of place around agricultural production, using Seaside as an urban design model.
    A blueberry farm in Groveland, Florida, has been designed for development as a village while maintaining current food production levels. The Lake Catherine Farms plan utilizes agrarian urbanism, where a mixed-use place maintains intensive agriculture on a portion of the land, while incorporating an...Read more

  • CNUers rank among most influential urbanists, past and present

    The Planetizen list of top all-time urbanists confirms the outsized influence of new urbanist ideas among planners at the moment.
    Planetizen came out with a periodically updated list of the all-time most influential urbanists . I can’t take this list too seriously and the rankings may cause considerable head-scratching (What do those ranked above Vitruvius, downgraded to number 67 , think? If I could wager who on the list...Read more