• Main Street brings New Urbanism to New York State

    Eastdale Village in Poughkeepsie crosses a US highway with a four-block Main Street, drawing visitors with a strong sense of place.
    A new four-block Main Street crosses US Route 44 about two miles east of Poughkeepsie, New York. Eastdale Village is a first-of-its-kind development in Upstate New York, which boasts some of the nation’s best old urbanism, but little New Urbanism. The development required give-and-take with the...Read more

  • Pre-fab home of the future, descended from the log cabin

    An economically promising pre-fab dwelling, built from solid timber, was displayed on the National Mall this summer. An untrained crew put the accessory dwelling together in a few days.
    The house of the future may be descended from Abe Lincoln’s cabin. Solid timber construction has practical and economic advantages, especially relating to accessory dwelling units (ADUs), a popular form of housing being legalized in states and cities across the US. Andres Duany of DPZ CoDesign...Read more

  • Stockyards reimagined

    Adaptive reuse of horse and mule barns in Fort Worth makes for a unique mixed-use development.
    The horse and mule barns at the Fort Worth Stockyards could house 3,000 equines at one point, but the automotive age made the facility obsolete. The five-acre site was vacant and dilapidated when the city approved a form-based code and design guidelines in 2017 to promote redevelopment of the...Read more

  • Lessons from ‘car-free’ Culdesac

    Nationally recognized Culdesac Tempe is living up to its hype—the question is to what extent cities will get out of the way to allow this to happen elsewhere.
    Phase 1 of Culdesac Tempe has been occupied for a year and a half, with phase 2 under construction. This closely watched 15-acre project on the Valley Metro light rail line indicates that car-free living is economically, socially, and environmentally viable, even in the heart of car culture—the...Read more