Project Database
This searchable database of projects represents the range and diversity of work in the New Urbanism. From regional-scale visions to single-building historic renovations, CNU members and their allies build places people love through land use planning, development, policy, and advocacy. If you are aware of a project that you believe should be part of the database, please email Robert Steuteville or Lauren Mayer.
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Blue Water Workforce Housing
Tavernier Key, Florida
Dignified affordable housing that matches the quality and character of market-rate housing—without breaking the bank—is desperately needed across America.
Claiborne Expressway campaign
New Orleans, Louisiana
Settled in the heart of New Orleans, a once thriving commercial district filled with cafes and restaurants, grocers, music venues, and other businesses sustaining daily neighborhood activities lined the streets of North Claiborne Avenue.
Gardiner Expressway
Toronto, Canada
Built between 1955 and 1966 by the Ministry of Transportation of Toronto (MTO), Toronto's Frederick G. Gardiner Expressway is a major east-west thoroughfare that connects downtown Toronto to its western suburbs.
I-345
Dallas, Texas
I-345 is the official name of a 1.4 mile elevated freeway running between downtown Dallas and the adjacent neighborhood of Deep Ellum. The freeway was built in 1973 to connect the Woodall Rogers Freeway to I-30.
Havana Waterfront
Havana, Cuba
As part of an eight-week urban studio that involved a trip to Havana, fifth-year University of Notre Dame architecture students were tasked with repairing the city’s waterfront along the Avenida de Puerto.
After Burnham
Chicago, Illinois
In these stunning renderings from the University of Notre Dame, you will likely recognize the City of Chicago. Or at least, the echoes of today’s Chicago, seen through the lens of a possible year 2109.
Seven50 #thisisCNU
Southeastern, Florida
One of the largest and most ambitious regional plans in history, the Seven50: Southeast Florida Prosperity Plan, was born out of a grand federal vision—the Partnership for Sustainable Communities between US HUD, DOT, and EPA.
Visions for Lafayette
Lafayette, Louisiana
Among all types of development, new hospital districts are, ironically, among the least walkable places in America—despite the positive health affects of walking.
Master Plan for the Town of LaFox, Illinois
LaFox, Illinois
The vast majority of the United States’ metropolitan edge is currently built in low-density, disconnected sprawl.
Africa Drawn: One Hundred Cities
Pretoria, South Africa
“Africa is certainly not only a continent of small villages in the jungle and savannah.