• Greenway is key to revitalizing Mill District

    A once-bustling manufacturing district near downtown High Point, North Carolina, suffered from urban renewal and job losses. A new plan focuses on transportation corridors, mixed-use development, and walkability.
    A revitalization plan for a 535-acre district is key to infill development in High Point, a growing city of 120,000 people in North Carolina's Piedmont region. The Southwest Mill District is a quadrant connected to downtown and a historic center of the city’s furniture industry. “The creation of...Read more

  • You, too, can be a small developer

    The Railyard in Lexington, Kentucky, is a case study in how a novice developer can take a significant project from concept to construction.
    Will Hanrahan, a marketing professional from Lexington, Kentucky, attended the Incremental Development Alliance (IncDev) workshop held in conjunction with CNU 32 in Cincinnati in 2024. Hanrahan found a one-acre former industrial site in his walkable Lexington neighborhood, listed on Facebook...Read more

  • Building a town on a shoestring budget

    The requirement to be efficient and economical, and to minimize financial risk, has contributed to the character of the Charter Award Grand Prize-winning town of Seabrook.
    Seabrook is one of the outstanding new towns built by New Urbanists, deserving recognition alongside places like Seaside, Florida, but fewer people have seen it because of its relative isolation on the Washington coast. This year, Seabrook won the Grand Prize in the Charter Awards, and an On the...Read more

  • Will air taxis be an opportunity for urbanism?

    A transformative transportation technology, eVTOLs, is coming soon, which is the reason behind The Village Project.
    The FAA has approved commercial trials of electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) craft, and most people are not yet aware of what they can do. These “air taxis” have propellers, so they can take off and land like helicopters, and wings like airplanes, and fly at a maximum speed of 200 mph...Read more