Design changes to the center of Kentlands, the influential traditional neighborhood development, show the potential for urbanism to improve as it ages.
CNU’s Legacy Project in Norwood, Ohio, examines strategies for connecting neighbors, neighborhoods, and the city as a whole to the larger region.
Meet the urban design theory rethinking life in the city.
Here are 10 tactics to plan for better walkability with immediate implementation, improving safety and reviving a city center in the process.
The Community Grid proposal takes a broad planning approach to seven neighborhoods, districts, and corridors that could be changed and redeveloped following the demolition of the I-81 viaduct that has long overshadowed the city center.
A YouTube influencer takes for a tour of Culdesac Tempe, one of the more interesting new developments today.

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Developer Casey Roloff starting home construction in Seabrook

Developer Casey Roloff is getting ready to begin construction of homes in Seabrook, the first full-scale new urban beach development on the West...

Tradition Today: Continuity in Architecture and Society

Edited by Robert Adam and Matthew HardyTradition Today takes readers, at a quick pace, over a lot of interesting terrain, most of it off the Modern...

CNU gets grant from Searle Funds at The Chicago Community Trust

The grant allows New Urbanist experts to teach the CNU/ITE Designing Walkable Urban Thoroughfares manual to Chicagoland’s transportation engineers...

“We’ve spent years designing [neighborhoods] that take

“We’ve spent years designing [neighborhoods] that take us from house to lawn to street [with no socialization]. We’re going to have to build...

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Suburbia was a housing program

We used to understand that housing construction was in the public interest

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