RECENT ARTICLES – 2021

CNU’s biennial Freeways Without Futures report is out now! In a series of articles, Public Square is exploring common threads from the report. This is article 1.

Highway removal offers a path to community revitalization and greater economic development, according to Freeways Without Futures 2021, released June 1.

The woonerf is coming of age as a thoroughfare type, allowing streets to take center stage as public spaces.

Great places have the ability to inspire, and Seaside changed my life from building wide, fast roads to analyzing and documenting the DNA of places.

The Plant Riverside District in Savannah, Georgia, transformed an abandoned industrial site into the most significant modern expansion of the city’s urban core. Sottile & Sottile and The Kessler Collection won the 2021 CNU Grand Prize Charter Award.

In cities across the country, small buildings are demonstrating a big effect on economic development and municipal finance.

The Paseo Cayalá Neighborhood in Guatemala City is a model of open and economically resilient development in a city of gated development. Estudio Urbano and Leon Krier won a 2021 CNU Charter Award in the Neighborhood, District, and Corridor category.