• ‘Missing middle’ neighborhood opens

    Prairie Queen is a re-imagining of a suburban apartment complex in the form of a walkable neighborhood.
    Perhaps the nation’s first exclusively “missing middle” housing neighborhood, the 50-acre Prairie Queen in Papillion, Nebraska—near Omaha—completed its first phase in June. Prairie Queen is a re-imagining of a suburban apartment complex in the form of a walkable neighborhood. The concept, designed...Read more

  • Transforming infrastructure in a dense international city

    A vision for a brownfield in Hong Kong could be one answer to its housing shortage.
    As one of the densest cities in the world, Hong Kong has long suffered a shortage of housing and public open space. For the past 100 years, the city’s main urban development strategy came through land reclamation. But a movement to protect the Harbor has put a stop to most of these projects in the...Read more

  • Citizen revolt preserves 2,000-year-old waterway

    Score one for historic preservation when a canal in use for two millennia was saved from being filled in to create a road and instead planned as a unique public space.
    The 7.4-mile-long Canal Nacional served as the main transportation waterway during the construction of Mexico City more than 2,000 years ago, and since then has been a conduit of vital supplies, from food to construction materials. It is the oldest linear park in the city—a rich ecosystem that is...Read more

  • Public space is downtown gateway

    A "pop up" park has evolved into a major downtown Detroit square that is anchoring a neighborhood revitalization.
    Located on the west side of Detroit’s Central Business District, Beacon Park was created to anchor an emerging district, spur economic growth within the neighborhood, and provide a high-quality gathering space for Detroiters and beyond. Beacon Park was conceived and built by DTE, a utility company...Read more