• Five hundred plans of Dover and Kohl

    This year’s Seaside Prize winners, Joseph Kohl and Victor Dover, discuss how street design is Victor's main issue and Joe will never put down his pen.
    Many urbanists are gathering at the iconic town of Seaside in Florida this weekend to award the annual Seaside Prize to the 2024 recipients, Victor Dover and Joseph Kohl, cofounders of Dover, Kohl & Partners in South Miami, Florida. Kohl and Dover have been leaders of New Urbanism since CNU...Read more

  • Volunteers sought for Ukraine rebuilding charrette

    CNU practitioners are invited to participate in a design charrette to help war-damaged Ukrainian communities. Team 11 , a Congress for the New Urbanism member-led initiative, is working with the nonprofit Neo-Eco Ukraine on a pilot project to replan three Ukrainian villages near the City of...Read more

  • Missing middle combines cottages, mixed-use

    A missing middle development includes a cottage court, mixed-use building, street-fronting cottages, and an accessory dwelling on a narrow parcel near downtown Thunderbolt, Georgia.
    Village on the Bluff is located along the western shore of the Wilmington River 5 miles Southeast of Downtown Savannah, Georgia. The site is a narrow infill parcel running between two streets with split zoning—single-family residential on one and commercial on the other, in the small waterfront...Read more

  • New urban fabric planned for old textile town

    A plan is moving forward in Belmont, North Carolina—one of the first communities to adopt a form-based code—that would double the size of the downtown and extend the street grid.
    A 15-acre planned main street expansion would double the downtown of a 150-year-old former textile town near Charlotte, North Carolina. In the 1990s, Belmont was one of the first municipalities in the US to adopt traditional neighborhood development coding, later called form-based coding—designed...Read more