Community
Winthrop Family Historical Garden redesigns an underutilized green space as a beautiful garden and public gathering spot in Chicago, Illinois. MKSK won a 2024 CNU Charter Award in the Block, Street, and Building category.
As the problem of loneliness grows, urbanists and planners may successfully design for social interaction in three broad ways.
A new town in Alabama is a model for how community planning and institutions can connect people.
A new urbanist development named after a literary hometown focuses on the arts and much-needed public space.
The author of Fragile Neighborhoods urges urban planners to take on a vital domestic challenge: Help restore the social function of neighborhoods.
The porch is more than just another single-family architectural feature, it's an important part of the culture of Black neighborhoods.
CNU and affiliated designers work with a community to identify implementation solutions for a disinvested urban corridor west of Charlotte’s Center City.
On the Park Bench explores mixed-use, neighborhood-scale development projects for faith communities in Charlotte, North Carolina, and Pike Road, Alabama.
Parishioners of a historic church in Detroit want to develop eight vacant blocks with missing middle housing to build a church-centered community.
The rapid rise of kiosk coffee sellers poses a threat to the business model behind the ultimate American third place—the cafe. Communities and nonprofits may have to take a larger role.
DC Bike Party helps build a community through its monthly celebration of the bicycle and by being a positive ambassador for cycling.
To find hidden culture and history, you must do what most Americans rarely do — travel the old thoroughfares and see towns that were bypassed by the Interstate system. For example, take Route 20 in New York State.