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Form-Based Code Results in Successful Bay Area TOD
Submitted by Sam Newberg - J... on Fri, 07/27/2012 - 11:55amWhen it opened in 2010, Walnut Creek Apartments provided 422 apartment units and 35,000 square feet of street-facing retail immediately adjacent to the Pleasant Hill/Contra Costa Centre Station of the BART system, located in Walnut Creek, California, in the bay area east of San Francisco. What isnâ€... read more »
Nickolai Group is Selected as Exclusive Agent for Woodbury Village, a 130 Acre Transit-Oriented Development Site
Submitted by kapoppel on Tue, 07/24/2012 - 2:33pmThe Nickolai Group at Prudential Douglas Elliman has been awarded the title of exclusive listing agent for the largest transit oriented development in New York- Woodbury Village. Woodbury is a 130 acre site located between to the New York Thruway (I-87,) Conrail, Route 17M, and Averill Avenue. The s... read more »
USA Today - Military planners want to make bases worldwide more walkable
Submitted by mikejersha on Wed, 05/23/2012 - 12:51pmNew Urbanism has reached a new type of community in its attempt to promote healthy, walkable places: military bases. The traditionally auto-centric suburban design of bases is clearly inefficient, where thousands of empty parking spaces are common, and the overall developed area is equivalent to the... read more »
Learning From Denver: More Insights from CNU 17
Submitted by Katherine Gregor on Thu, 07/02/2009 - 3:43pmHere's the second of two Austin Chronicle columns on CNU 17:
Developing Stories: Learning From Denver
BY KATHERINE GREGOR
More insights from CNU 17
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From Austin to Evanston, is 'Loose Tower Disease' spreading?
Submitted by Jon Davis on Wed, 04/09/2008 - 3:37pmA contentious debate is under way in my hometown, Evanston, Illinois, where developers James Klutznick and Tim Anderson propose building a new condominium tower downtown across Church Street from the
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Tyson's Corner Sprawl "Real Urban Experience?" -- Suburban Soul -- Washington Post
Submitted by crandell on Sun, 12/24/2006 - 11:30amSteven Pearlstein from the Washington Post lauds Tysons Corner for its suburb grit in his article "Suburban Soul: Reston Is Hot Property, but Tysons Hums With 'Messy Vitality.'" While I would tend to agree that the best places evolve over time, creating that "messy vitality," I think Pearlstein is ... read more »