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Embrace the Grid
Hickory, North Carolina's urban fabric shows how connectivity is good for community and commerce.
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Adeleine Geitner

September 2024

Virginia is for YIMBYs
The pro-housing movement is spreading, and driving reform across the commonwealth.
In Review: Better Cities Film Festival
Spotlighting three urbanist movies that were screened at February's Better Cities Film Festival.
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Adeleine Geitner
CITYBUILDING | New Urbanism’s Southern Seed
Why New Urbanism is emphatically Southern in origin and why it matters
Building Trust
How can city design make us feel safer in our neighborhoods?
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Adeleine Geitner

August 2024

OP-ED | Southern Affordability
An Austin teacher asks: “Texas, who will teach your kids when housing affordability drives us out?”
Too Many Master-Planned Communities Look Sterile
How can developments like that in Ballantyne, NC, better incorporate elements of community in their design?
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Sonia Birla
Small Homes and Small Lots
Durham, North Carolina's reforms chart a new path to lowered housing costs.
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Aaron Lubeck
JANE JACOBS | 4 Rules of Fostering Good Urbanism
In the fast-urbanizing South, Jane Jacobs’s common denominators for vibrant cities still apply.
Advocating for a Pro-Family Urbanism
Building for families creates places for everyone
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Adeleine Geitner

July 2024

“We’ve become obsessed by it.” - CNU Co-Founder reflects on climate change, and how “new urbanism” has changed in 32 years.
This is part of nine-part series where three Duke students ask three questions to architects, planners, and figures at the Congress for New Urbanism…
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Zoe Tishaev
Uniting Town and Gown and Food
Food brings people together-- and what better way to connect colleges with their communities?
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Adeleine Geitner
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