• Seaside civic realm

    Seaside, Florida
    Successional development does not only refer to buildings, according to architect Dhiru Thadani, as Seaside, Florida, makes a case that the civic realm can be steadily improved to respond to changing circumstances and present-day needs. In recent years, these improvements have included: Seaside’s...Read more

  • The Borough

    Many traditional neighborhood developments are laboratories of ideas, and one of the more radical experiments today can be found in simple brick houses in Carlton Landing, Oklahoma. Clay Chapman has built 18 of these strikingly beautiful homes, with foot-thick brick-and-mortar walls, in the new...Read more

  • Carlton Landing

    Carlton Landing is the first new urban town in the US to be legally incorporated, an important milestone. The rural Oklahoma community is focused on green design and self-sufficiency—The independent mindset comes from its remote location 20 miles from the nearest Interstate, and a one-to-two-hour...Read more

  • La Fontana District

    La Fontana District is a 96-acre new district located to the west of the historic city of David, Panama, on a site facing the Pan-American Highway, which stretches from Alaska to Argentina. Over the decades, uncontrolled infill development and random sprawl have eroded the urban form and ecology of...Read more