• Canal Nacional

    The 7.4-mile-long Canal Nacional served as the main transportation waterway during the construction of Mexico City more than 2,000 years ago, and since the has been a conduit of vital supplies, from food to construction materials. It is the oldest linear park in the city—a rich ecosystem that is...Read more
  • Kentlands from Above

    Kentlands

    Built over 30 years ago, the Kentlands neighborhood of Gaithersburg, Maryland, was designed to be one of the first New Urbanist towns in America. In 1987, local developer Joe Alfandre bought 352 acres of Otis Beale Kent’s vast farm estate and decided to convert it into a neighborhood similar to...Read more

  • Serenbe

    In the Chattahoochee Hills of northwestern Georgia, a neighborhood was built to protect the rural land outside of Atlanta. This neighborhood would later become known as Serenbe, a blend of “serene” and “be.” Serenbe founders, Steve Nygren and Maire Lupo Nygren, constructed Serenbe with the vision...Read more
  • Sweet City Curridabat Pond

    Sweet City: Defeating the City-Nature Antagonism

    Recovering urban nature for a healthier city
    The first city in Costa Rica to adopt form-based coding has created a citywide plan to connect urban neighborhoods to nature. Sweet City is the next phase of a Charter Award-winning plan of 2014. The majority of Curridabat’s 72,500 citizens live among public spaces dominated by asphalt— inhibiting...Read more