Preserving History: Assessments and Climate Adaptations at The House of the Seven Gables in Salem, MA. Union Studio Architecture & Community Design won a Merit Award in the Block, Street, and Building category of the 2025 CNU Charter Awards.
The Shockoe Project tells an important story about slavery while providing public space that links downtown to an adjacent neighborhood. Baskervill won a Merit Award in the Block, Street, and Building category of the 2025 CNU Charter Awards.
In an interview, Brett Smiley discusses sustainable, equitable, urban housing policy, and other topics that will be covered at CNU33 in Providence, Rhode Island, June 11-14.
Tyler Station transforms an eyesore and environmental liability into a dynamic activity center supported by transit. Options Real Estate Investments won a Merit Award in the Block, Street, and Building category of the 2025 CNU Charter Awards.
Construyendo Guatemala: Tradition and Technology combines creative infill design and construction. Deisy Velasquez, University of Maryland, won a Student Merit Award in The Neighborhood, District, and Corridor category of the 2025 Charter Awards.
Acushnet Avenue is the heart of the North End of New Bedford, Massachusetts. A Legacy Project called Love the Ave associated with CNU 33 proposes targeted interventions to improve vitality and quality of life in a 40-block area on both sides of...
Features
Streets Five scenarios that make street transformation possible
Why street design has not kept pace with automotive safety improvements, and what you can do about it.
Transit, TOD Ten steps toward autonomous urbanism
Here's a playbook for municipal leaders and citizens on the road to smart city technology.
Better Cities & Towns Archive
The Dwelling Complex: I. The Ancillary Unit: B. The strategy of time and change
The ability to evolve is among the most important and underestimated differences between conventional zoning and Transect-based development. The...
Prince Charles accepted the National Building Museum’s Vincent
Prince Charles accepted the National Building Museum’s Vincent Scully Prize Nov. 3 in Washington, DC, where he declared his admiration for “...
Weston Munzel, formerly with Gibbs Planning Group
Weston Munzel, formerly with Gibbs Planning Group and Duany Plater-Zyberk, recently joined Woolpert LLP’s Cincinnati office as a town planner and...
Silver linings amid foreclosures
Emerging Trends in Real Estate 2009, a survey by PricewaterhouseCoopers and the Urban Land Institute, grimly predicts: “The credit crisis and ensuing...
Great Ideas
Suburbia was a housing program
We used to understand that housing construction was in the public interest
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