• Connecting to reclaim communities

    CNU's 2018 Transportation Summit united local groups that battle to remove disruptive urban highway segments
    “Caused folks around here a lot of heartburn.” With this phrase, Amy Stelly described the ongoing anguish that the Claiborne Expressway has caused for the members of the predominantly African-American community of New Orleans’ Tremé neighborhood. Ten years ago, Stelly helped found the Claiborne...Read more

  • Judging a book by its cover

    A campus designed as an isolated, car-dependent place has become virtually car-free.
    “When I was invited to become a Professor at the ETH Zurich in 1976 I accepted spontaneously because I loved Zurich and Karl Moser’s ETH building. When at my first visit I was instead taken to the new suburban ETH-Höngkerberg (sic) compound. I was so appalled by the teaching premises that I...Read more

  • Study supports freeway removal as best option

    A tunnel would cost nearly three times as much as converting the aging I-81 in Syracuse to a boulevard—as suggested by CNU's Freeways Without Futures report.
    A new study shows that building a tunnel to carry Interstate 81 traffic through Syracuse, NY, would cost billions more dollars and take a decade to complete. The wisdom of transforming the aging elevated highway to a surface boulevard, as suggested by CNU's Freeways Without Futures 2017 list , is...Read more

  • Great Idea: Freeways Without Futures

    Reducing state and federal infrastructure costs while boosting local economies by strengthening urban places is a win-win from in-city freeway transformation.
    In celebration of the 25th Congress for the New Urbanism , Public Square is running the series 25 Great Ideas of the New Urbanism. These ideas have been shaped by new urbanists and continue to influence cities, towns, and suburbs. The series is meant to inspire and challenge those working toward...Read more