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The home building industry is in for a long, grueling winter, but there are signs of spring on the horizon. At opposite ends of the country, two new urbanist neighborhoods are sprouting up on sites that were more than ready for a little rejuvenation. Thanks to smart planning and a cooperative...
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Most college students can't wait to get out of the dorms and into off-campus housing. At Wofford College, seniors have a reason to stick around: a New Urbanist–style neighborhood of cottages to call their own, complete with rockers, hammocks, and barbecue grills.
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LIFE ON A TROPICAL ISLAND offers some unexpected delights in this infill paradise. Proving that New Urbanism need not be synonymous with historic revival architecture, its geometric forms are completely modern.
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The Village of West Clay, one of the Midwest's most celebrated experiments in New Urbanism, may be proof positive that commercial zones are easier to change than citizen comfort zones.
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The challenge of housing Las Vegas' new residents has introduced new terms to the area's vocabulary, including "live/work," "new urbanism," and, especially, "mixed-use."
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The architect says he was drawn to the New Urban Challenge because it offered an alternative to the "prevailing trend in our business of big, bigger, biggest."
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The response from the architects to the New Urban Challenge was intensely personal. They designed houses they would want to live in themselves.
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JOKE IF YOU WANT ABOUT NEW JERSEY, BUT WHEN IT COMES to selling high-density waterfront housing, few can match the Landings at Harborside in Perth Amboy. The first phase of 78 homes of the project's 2,100-unit master plan sold out in 10 days, thanks largely to an innovative sales and design center...
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The 2005 New Urban Challenge show home project, co-sponsored by Home and BUILDER magazines, stood up to 110 mph winds this fall and shows off the latest and greatest in walkable, new urban community design.
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AT FIRST GLANCE, IT'S HARD TO SEE HOW THE Carneros Inn in Napa, Calif., could have any connection to the tenets of new urbanism. The 27-acre, $57 million resort property boasts the first of two dozen for-sale homes, 96 guest cottages, a spa, and a first-class restaurant. Instead of the usual...
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Traditional neighborhood developments work. "They can't explain the TND concept in their own minds, let alone rationalize it to family and friends helping them house hunt." TNDs, most simply described as compact, walkable, mixed-use neighborhoods, run the gamut from communities that adhere...
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- NAHB to hold Traditional Neighborhood Design seminar and project tour in Charleston, S.C.
- New active-adult housing developments generate substantial economic benefits for local communities, according to an NAHB study.
- Remodelers remain positive about current business conditions, but...
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Sensitivity to the land and the community were the keys to this top award winner, an infill project on a well-known historic estate property in Northern California. The traditional colonial facade of Anoakia's 4,935-square-foot Residence One is in harmony with the architecture of the surrounding...
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Florida has long been a leader in Traditional Neighborhood Development, and now Miami's Dacra Development Corp. is proving that New Urbanism doesn't have to be all gingerbread and front porches. Aqua, a new community on 8 1/2 acres at the southern tip of the city's Allison Island, is what the...