• Shophomes offer living above micro-retail

    The Wheeler District, an airport redevelopment in Oklahoma City, offers many urban housing types including “shophomes”—mixed-use townhouses like traditional main street dwellings.
    Bringing a product type unique to the Oklahoma City market in newly built housing, the Spoke Street Shophomes provide an opportunity to live, work, and play all in one place. These 10 live-work townhomes deliver micro-retail and attainable housing for an entrepreneurial subset of buyers in the new...Read more

  • Adaptable stock plans for missing middle housing

    A Fayetteville, Arkansas, designer has created a stock plan that works for a wide range of missing middle types, including townhouses, duplexes, cottages, ADUs, and even a pair of fourplexes.
    The Audrey is a stock plan for an 18-foot by 32-foot two-bedroom, one-and-a-half bath, 1,200-square-foot townhouse unit that Flintlock LAB has designed and implemented in Fayetteville, Arkansas. Described as a “super adaptable workhorse of missing middle infill housing,” The Audrey has been built...Read more

  • New Urbanism growing through great ideas

    Revisiting the 25 Great Ideas of the New Urbanism shows how the movement and world have changed in the last half decade.
    I wrote 25 Great Ideas of the New Urbanism to celebrate the first quarter century of the Congress for the New Urbanism, founded in 1993. It was published as an electronic book in the fall of 2017. As I revisit this book after CNU recently celebrated its 30 th anniversary, I am struck by the low...Read more

  • Marrying affordability, good design, and preservation

    Willkommen Urban Infill in Cincinnati, Ohio, is a scattered-site revitalization of a historic area, focusing on affordable housing. Model Group, 3CDC, and GBBN won a Merit Award in the Block, Street, and Building category of the CNU 2023 Charter Awards.
    Over-the-Rhine (OTR) in Cincinnati is one of the nation’s best-known preservation stories, with reoccupied architecture in the last 15 years that rivals the finest historic districts in cities like New Orleans and Charleston—but the district has also suffered a significant loss of affordable...Read more