RECENT ARTICLES – 2018
A new report by Todd Litman offers a vision for optimal urban growth for affordability and livability—laying down a challenge to Wendell Cox, smart growth critic and author of a widely cited report.
Downtown has come back to life while the city is building a transit framework for walkable, mixed-use growth along corridors.
I don't often write about skyscrapers, but this proposal includes smart urban design moves.
A citywide comprehensive plan joins progressive vision with detailed implementation.
In a half century, a neighborhood was cleared for public housing towers. Then the failing towers gave way to a new neighborhood.
A suburb shows how to grow while building the core in a way that adds to the character of place.
Sometime this century—perhaps in the next decade—America will be physically repurposed in a new urban form that is different from sprawl or 19th Century gridded towns. Is CNU ready to lead when that happens?
Transit-oriented project provides housing for public employees next to public housing in buildings inspired by the District's successful vernacular patterns.
Pierre L’Enfant created the physical framework for a resilient, dynamic, and sometimes disorienting city—now the hidden celestrial meaning behind the patterns is finally revealed.
