• The toughest transformation

    Crosstown Concourse reused a massive blight in the midst of disinvested Memphis neighborhoods.
    For two decades, the 1.3-million-square-foot former Sears distribution center sat empty in the midst of disinvested Memphis neighborhoods—a symbol of urban blight. The building was too big to redevelop and too expensive to demolish, many thought. Now Crosstown Concourse represents the best kind of...Read more
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    Avoiding planned isolation: Campus design, part 3

    Author’s note: This is the third in a series of ten essays that present innovative techniques for designing and repairing a corporate or university campus. These tools combine New Urbanist principles with Alexandrian design methods. Traditional principles of human-scale urban design and planning...Read more

  • Gehl highlights biggest Congress ever

    CNU resurrects the Athena Medal in Savannah to entice the Danish sage of human-scale cities. Next year: New Bourbonism.
    CNU 26.Savannah reached the highest participation of any Congress of the New Urbanism, dating back to 1993. More than 1,600 attendees visited Georgia's lush port city of squares to beat the pre-recession record, set in Providence in 2006. Among the highlights was Danish architect Jan Gehl, a...Read more

  • Memphis warehouse redevelopment tops Charter Awards

    Crosstown Concourse, the redevelopment of a 1.3 million square foot former Sears distribution center that sat empty for decades among run-down Memphis neighborhoods, won the Grand Prize in CNU’s 17 th annual Charter Awards, announced in Savannah, Georgia, over the weekend. This year, the Congress...Read more