Development

Civic features and architecture give Frisco Square, a downtown extension, imageability.
Three leaders of the New Urbanism explain why density matters today, how it impacts cities, and the importance of design.
The Indiana City, north of Indianapolis, has taken a unique approach to combat sprawl thought downtown development.
Downcity Providence Master Plan in Providence, Rhode Island, created a blueprint for downtown vitality. DPZ CoDesign and Cornish Associates won a 2025 CNU Charter and Generational Project Award in the Neighborhood, District, and Corridor category.
The New York Times recently endorsed sprawl as a solution to the housing crisis, but the writer is confused about the outward expansion of cities.
The mixed-use plan for Greensboro, North Carolina, establishes a network of small blocks and the first of a series of neighborhoods for new development northwest of the historic city.
The 200-acre downtown for the largest new urban community culminates a plan that grew out of a regional planning effort to reimagine the Wasatch Front metropolis.
The Village of Providence shows how you can create a strong place out of nowhere in two decades.
Townhouses facing courtyards that are perpendicular to the street improve the quality of life for this building type.
Christopher Leinberger and Rebecca Rockey explain the historic opportunity to rebalance the real estate in urban centers.
Two handsome four-story buildings are on the final lots to be built in Glenwood Park, a Charter Award-winning neighborhood in Atlanta.
Walkable places are critical to cities and the national economy and here’s a formula to get them back on track.