Nashville: Plans for tallest residential building in Nashville revealed
- Nashville: Plans for tallest residential building in Nashville revealed
- Nashville: Neighborhood Focus, Big Opportunities Drive Capital Spending Plan - Mayor Funds More Education and Transportation Improvements
Record Parks Investment Increases Green Space Access and Enhances Community Amenities
- Nashville: Chattanooga to Explore Smart City Research with NSF Funds: Using a National Science Foundation grant, the city will expand on its connected transportation test bed
Using a National Science Foundation grant, the city will expand on its connected transportation test bed
- Nashville: The Titans' part in transforming Nashville's East Bank
Nashville: The Titans' part in transforming Nashville's East Bank
- What is Urban Design and Housing?
What is Urban Design and Housing? #UrbanDesign #Housing #UrbanPlanning
- Urban planner makes the case for a human rights approach
Ryerson graduate believes effective community planning incorporates justice, accessibility and affordability
- School of Cities University of Toronto
School of Cities University of Toronto
- Where pro-housing groups are emerging
Where pro-housing groups are emerging
- New Pioneers: Lean Urbanism in America
An entertaining book outlines how ordinary citizens can rebuild cities without the help or hindrance of big developers, big finance, and government bureaucrats.
- Leveraging proximity to downtown, physical assets, and culture
An initiative for Westside Atlanta—an area replete with civil rights history—combines new housing and public realm improvements with a wide range of social and philanthropic programs designed to help legacy residents to thrive while the area redevelops.
- Toward Placekeeping: How design + dialogue can make cities better for everyone
At CityLab DC, speakers focus on keeping the culture of place in the face of a changing city.
- We need ‘Goldilocks,’ not ‘voodoo,’ urbanism
Cities generate benefits from concentrations of talent—but also from “spreading it around.” Striking a balance results in more equity and a more resilient economy.
- Housing choice can make cities more affordable and resilient
Durham, North Carolina, and Atlanta, Georgia, are part of a nationwide trend of reforming single-family-only zones to allow for a diversity of housing options.
- Developing Cities Need Cash. Land Value Capture Can Help
Developing Cities Need Cash. Land Value Capture Can Help
- Three Ways Big Cities Can Draw In Citizens In The Next 10 Years @forbes
Three Ways Big Cities Can Draw In Citizens In The Next 10 Years @forbes
- 3 essential questions for cities in 2022 - Can cities thrive in turbulent times?
3 essential questions for cities in 2022 - Can cities thrive in turbulent times?
- New urban revitalization in an underserved community
The Atlanta neighborhood of Pittsburgh was the subject of foundation investment to develop in an equitable way.
- Cities of despair - or opportunity?
Cities of despair - or opportunity?
- Community Land Trust is planting the roots of housing affordability
Initiated by area residents as part of the 11th Street Bridge Park equitable development plan, The Douglass Community Land Trust has become an important part of the housing affordability toolkit in Washington, DC.
- Perkins Eastman: Transformative Thinking: Building re-use and upgrades should be the default over teardown and new construction for a more sustainable future.
Transformative Thinking: Building re-use and upgrades should be the default over teardown and new construction for a more sustainable future.
- Introducing Perkins Eastman Strategies: Future Growth Goes Beyond Architecture
Introducing Perkins Eastman Strategies: Future Growth Goes Beyond Architecture
- A Decade of Investment in Detroit’s Revitalization: An Oral History of Our Journey – Capital Impact Partners in Detroit
- The rise of black-majority cities: Migration patterns since 1970 created new majorities in U.S. cities
The rise of black-majority cities: Migration patterns since 1970 created new majorities in U.S. cities
- Financing Urban Infrastructure Initiative: Innovative infrastructure financing for stakeholders in the urban finance field
Financing Urban Infrastructure Initiative: Innovative infrastructure financing for stakeholders in the urban finance field
- Amazon Launches Accelerator Program to Grow Opportunities for Real Estate Developers of Color and Increase Affordable Housing:
New pilot program is supported by a more than $21 million commitment from Amazon to provide real estate developers of color with education, mentorship, and access to capital in Amazon’s hometown communities in Washington state’s Puget Sound region; the Arlington,..
- The emerging solidarity economy: A primer on community ownership of real estate
The emerging solidarity economy: A primer on community ownership of real estate
- Financing urban development, three business models: Johannesburg, Shanghai and London
Financing urban development, three business models: Johannesburg, Shanghai and London
- Nashville: How developments along the Cumberland River will change Nashville | Tennessean
Nashville: How developments along the Cumberland River will change Nashville | Tennessean
- America’s Lost Towns of Black Affluence
America’s Lost Towns of Black Affluence
- Closing the Funding Gap for Housing Developers of Color
Closing the Funding Gap for Housing Developers of Color: People of color make up an estimated less than 5% of housing developers in the U.S.
- Expert jury set to pick new design to revamp Ottawa parliamentary precinct: Block 2, sits in the shadow of Centre Block’s Peace Tower, one of Canada’s most iconic buildings
Zeidler Architecture with David Chipperfield Architects NEUF architect(e)s with Renzo Piano Building Workshop Diamond Schmitt Architects with Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG), KWC Architects and ERA Architects Provencher Roy WilkinsonEyre with IDEA Inc. Waston MacEwen Teramura Architects with Behnisch Architenkten
- Ottawa Canada: Six design concepts made the short list in a competition to redevelop Block 2 of the parliamentary precinct
Jury reviewing short list of designs for Block 2 of parliamentary precinct
- Nashville: Riverside Project: Ewing Properties and SOM Unveil Nashville Riverside Master Plan
Nashville: Riverside Project: Ewing Properties and SOM Unveil Nashville Riverside Master Plan
- How did the new black-majority cities come about? Black-majority cities have emerged in different ways across U.S. regions
Suburbanization also drove black-majority cities’ emergence - Black-majority cities are here to stay
- Nashville: Nashville’s Riverside | Episode 672
Nashville: Nashville’s Riverside | Episode 672
- Nashville: Madison Realty Capital Originates $45 Million Loan for Mixed-Use River North Development in Nashville, Tennessee
Part of Transformational East Bank Project Supporting Nashville’s Economic Development
- Making Black history matter in public space
Making Black history matter in public space
- America is more diverse than ever — but still segregated
: The United States is on track to be a majority-minority nation by 2044. But census data show most of our neighbors are the same race.
- Reflecting On “Race, Power, And Urban Spaces” And the Changing Landscape Of African American Urban Communities
Reflecting On “Race, Power, And Urban Spaces” And the Changing Landscape Of African American Urban Communities
- Developers of Color Still Swimming Against the Current in Commercial Real Estate:
Commercial real estate has long had a whiteness problem. A raft of new initiatives is looking to change that.
- Nashville: River North Project: GBT Realty Corp. pays $60 million for River North land
Nashville: River North Project: GBT Realty Corp. pays $60 million for River North land
- Nashville: Riverside Project: $2.5 billion riverfront development announced
Nashville: Riverside Project: $2.5 billion riverfront development announced
- Black developers call for reckoning in real estate: In aftermath of protests, new doors are opening. But they say more is needed.
Black developers call for reckoning in real estate: In aftermath of protests, new doors are opening. But they say more is needed.
- Meet the Black design collective reimagining how cities get built - BlackSpace
Meet the Black design collective reimagining how cities get built - Urban planning often neglects or harms communities of color by cutting them out of the decision-making process. BlackSpace, a collective of architects, designers, artists, and urban planners, is quietly..
- Public Space in North American Cities
Public Space in North American Cities
- Project for Public Spaces: Ten Strategies for Transforming Cities and Public Spaces through Placemaking
Project for Public Spaces: Ten Strategies for Transforming Cities and Public Spaces through Placemaking
- Black Urbanists Are Leading the Fight for More Inclusive Cities:
Black city planning experts on inclusion in urban planning and why everyone needs to pay attention to transportation.
- Nashville: East Bank Project: Changes coming to Nashville's East Bank of Cumberland River
Nashville: East Bank Project: Changes coming to Nashville's East Bank of Cumberland River
- Nashville: Future Nashville 2030: Tallest Under Construction and Proposed Projects
Nashville: Future Nashville 2030: Tallest Under Construction and Proposed Projects
- Nashville Riverfront Concept Plan
Nashville Riverfront Concept Plan
- Nashville Riverfront Master Plan
Nashville Riverfront Master Plan
- The University of California, UC Davis and UC Davis Health System Economic Impact Analysis
The University of California, UC Davis and UC Davis Health System Economic Impact Analysis CRW UC economic-impact-report California - full report
- Urban Land Institute: Ten Principles for Rethinking the Mall
Ten Principles for Rethinking the Mall
- Urban Land Institute: Ten Principles for Rebuilding Neighborhood Retail
Ten Principles for Rebuilding Neighborhood Retail
- Urban Land Institute: Ten Principles for Developing Successful Town Centers
Ten Principles for Developing Successful Town Centers
- Urban Land Institute: Ten Principles for Developing Affordable Housing
Ten Principles for Developing Affordable Housing seeks to help those who wish to develop housing for low- and moderate-income households understand what it takes to make affordable housing projects happen. It also seeks to help policy makers and community leaders..
- On the Waterfront: The main currents in Perkins Eastman’s Waterfront Work - Nashville Waterfront Project
On the Waterfront: The main currents in Perkins Eastman’s Waterfront Work - Nashville Waterfront Project It’s a crisp spring morning in Nashville when officials from Metro Nashville Planning Department join Perkins Eastman principals Vaughan Davies and Eric Fang on board..
- OECD Financing Green Urban Infrastructure
This paper presents an overview of practices and challenges related to financing green sustainable cities. Cities are essential actors in stimulating green infrastructure; and urban finance is one of the promising ways in which this can be achieved.
- New Cities Foundation: Handbook on Urban Infrastructure Finance
In early 2015, New Cities Foundation launched the Financing Urban Infrastructure Initiative to address critical infrastructure financing issues and challenges facing cities today. This handbook is the culmination of that initiative.
- Nashville: River North Project: Recent River North deal seemingly sets record - Brentwood’s GBT pays $16.21M per acre in $60M transaction
- Mobilizing Capital to Build Communities of Opportunity Equity Well-Being LIIF Strategic Plan
Mobilizing Capital to Build Communities of Opportunity Equity Well-Being LIIF Strategic Plan CRW Mobilizing Capital to Build Communities of Opportunity Equity Well-Being LIIF Strategic Plan Low Income Investment Fund (LIIF) Strategic Plan 2020-2024
- Urban Land Institute: Involving the Community in Neighborhood Planning
neighborhood level. Collaborative neighborhood planning on issues involving land use and development, redevelopment, transportation, and economic development offers cities the opportunity to identify, coordinate, and prioritize a variety of goals with the involvement of the local community.
- Nashville: River North Project: Tower eyed for West End, Elliston split to feature neo-art deco design - Brentwood developer submits images for planned 375-foot high-rise
Nashville: River North Project: Tower eyed for West End, Elliston split to feature neo-art deco design - Brentwood developer submits images for planned 375-foot high-rise
- WEF Affordable Housing Whitepaper: Making Affordable Housing a Reality in Cities
WEF Affordable Housing Whitepaper Summary: Land Acquisition & Securing Title | Land Use & Zoning Regulations | Affordable Housing Finance | Design Considerations & Construction Costs | Demand Side
- Nashville: East Bank Project: East Bank redevelopment to break ground after decades of planning
Nashville: East Bank Project: East Bank redevelopment to break ground after decades of planning
- Nashville: Riverside Project: Mega development will transform massive 65-acre property in North Nashville
Nashville: Riverside Project: Mega development will transform massive 65-acre property in North Nashville
- 10 Black Architects Who Shaped American Cities
They fought racial inequality in architecture and shaped the skylines we know today
- Nashville: Archer Western begins construction of River North mixed-use development in Nashville: 817,070 square feet of development
Nashville: Archer Western begins construction of River North mixed-use development in Nashville: 817,070 square feet of development
- Nashville: River North Project: Local developer eyes River North site - GBT undertaking urban projects in city, now seemingly seeks parcels near Oracle campus
Nashville: River North Project: Local developer eyes River North site - GBT undertaking urban projects in city, now seemingly seeks parcels near Oracle campus
- Nashville: Riverside Project: Plans unveiled for 65-acre mixed-use Northwest Nashville neighborhood - A $2.5 billion development
Nashville: Riverside Project: Plans unveiled for 65-acre mixed-use Northwest Nashville neighborhood - A $2.5 billion development
- Nashville: River North Project: GBT Realty Corporation
40 million sq. ft. of commercial real estate worth over $8 billion. Today, 5 million sq. ft. of prime assets are currently under management with another $1.185 billion in the pipeline
- Black Urban Design in a "Changing America"
"The city is the black man's land," reads one capsule in an exhibition at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Its curator explains why design is a critical part of the post-1968 urban and suburban landscape—and..
- Nashville: Riverside Project
Nashville: Riverside Project
- Nashville: Neighborhood Focus, Big Opportunities Drive Capital Spending Plan - Mayor Funds More Education and Transportation Improvements; Record Parks Investment Increases Green Space Access and Enhances Community Amenities
Nashville: Neighborhood Focus, Big Opportunities Drive Capital Spending Plan - Mayor Funds More Education and Transportation Improvements; Record Parks Investment Increases Green Space Access and Enhances Community Amenities
- Dream Unlimited and Great Gulf Group selected to develop Quayside - Partnership unites local and international talent to deliver needed affordable housing and public spaces and transform the 12-acre (4.9 hectare) site
Among the highlights of the winning submission from Dream and Great Gulf were proposals to create: -800+ affordable housing units, more than doubling the affordable housing Waterfront Toronto has brought to the waterfront, with many delivered in earliest stages to..
- Dream Unlimited Corp and Great Gulf Group picked to build Quayside neighbourhood on Toronto's waterfront
A plan to transform a 12-acre plot of land on Toronto’s waterfront into a multi-use space with affordable housing and state-of-the-art architecture is one step closer to becoming a reality. Pending approval, shovels are expected to be in the ground..
- Waterfront Toronto: Quayside Together, by Quayside Impact Limited Partnership
Waterfront Toronto launched an international competition to secure a development partner for the Quayside lands at the foot of Parliament Street and Lake Shore Boulevard East in Toronto. Dream Unlimited and Great Gulf Group (known as Quayside Impact Limited Partnership)..
- Nashville: Riverside Project: Updated Renderings for The Riverside: A New Mixed-Use District on West Trinity Lane
Nashville: Riverside Project: Updated Renderings for The Riverside: A New Mixed-Use District on West Trinity Lane
- Nashville: East Bank Planning Study
Nashville: East Bank Planning Study
- Three Ways Big Cities Can Draw In Citizens In The Next 10 Years
Forbes: Three Ways Big Cities Can Draw In Citizens
- Nashville: River North Project: Details emerge for condo tower planned for Green Hills - GBT’s Eden House to rise 16 floors near Vertis, Hillsboro Pike
Nashville: River North Project: Details emerge for condo tower planned for Green Hills - GBT’s Eden House to rise 16 floors near Vertis, Hillsboro Pike
- Nashville: Metro, state finalize $50M of funds to begin designing and buying land for East Bank 'spine connector' boulevard
Nashville: Metro, state finalize $50M of funds to begin designing and buying land for East Bank 'spine connector' boulevard
- Nashville: Knighthead Funding Provides $33M Construction Loan for Mixed-Use Residential Project in Nashville
- Nashville: East Bank Project: East Bank redevelopment breaks ground after decades of planning - It will be home to a new downtown neighborhood
Nashville: East Bank Project: East Bank redevelopment breaks ground after decades of planning - It will be home to a new downtown neighborhood
- Nashville: Riverside Project: B. Edward Ewing - Meet the Texas tycoon (named Ewing) who says he wants to invest $500M in Nashville
B. Edward Ewing seeks Metro's commitment to bridges over Cumberland, policies that encourage taller, more expensive residential dwellings in area north of downtown Nashville.
- Nashville: River North Project: Monroe Investment Partners LLC
Nashville: River North Project: Monroe Investment Partners LLC
- Nashville: Riverside Project: Dramatic Plans Unveiled for ‘the Riverside’ An Expansive $2.5 B, 65-Acre Mixed-Use Northwest Nashville Neighborhood
Expansive $2.5 B, 65-Acre Mixed-Use Northwest Nashville Neighborhood Featuring 3-Public Parks; Downtown Waterfront Access - Ewing Properties Community to Offer 5 million square feet of Residential and Commercial Spaces Fronting the Cumberland River
- Nashville: River North Project: Local developer acquires River North site for undisclosed sum - GBT can reinvent property near future Oracle campus with building up to 38 floors
Nashville: River North Project: Local developer acquires River North site for undisclosed sum - GBT can reinvent property near future Oracle campus with building up to 38 floors
- Nashville: Perkins Eastman’s Waterfront Design Projects
Nashville: Perkins Eastman’s Waterfront Design Projects
- Confronting Urban Design’s Diversity Crisis With a Return to Black Places
An initiative taking shape at the University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture wants to disrupt conventional notions of planning.
- The case for AfroUrbanism: AfroUrbanism centers the lived experience of black people in the design and creation of black communities.
It puts black culture at the fore, taking into account the past harms, current challenges, and future aspirations of black city dwellers. AfroUrbanism goes beyond Black folks practicing traditional urbanism, it explicitly requires us to employ our cultural fluency; that..
- Nashville: Nashville’s East Bank Ready to Go: Perkins Eastman's waterfront master planning will guide its progress
Nashville: Nashville’s East Bank Ready to Go: Perkins Eastman's waterfront master planning will guide its progress
- Nashville: River North Project: Cumberland River site offered for $98.4M - Multi-parcel 41-acre property located near West Trinity, proposed River North
Nashville: River North Project: Cumberland River site offered for $98.4M - Multi-parcel 41-acre property located near West Trinity, proposed River North
- To build safe streets, we need to address racism in urban design
To build safe streets, we need to address racism in urban design
- Developers of Color Capacity Building Initiative
An Advancement Report for Twin Cities Local Initiatives Support Corporation Research Findings, Study Report, And Recommendations For Twin Cities Local Initiatives Support Corporation
- Nashville: Principal Provides $63M Construction Loan on Nashville Multifamily Project
Nashville: Principal Provides $63M Construction Loan on Nashville Multifamily Project
- Nashville: Riverside Project: Developer eyes $2.5B project for Cumberland River: Ewing Properties pitches North Davidson County mixed-use plan once again
-65-acre North Davidson County property fronting the Cumberland River The Riverside, $2.5 billion mixed-use project to include office, residential, retail and green space. -collective up to 5 million square feet of residential, office, restaurant and retail spaces, along with three..
- Urban planning can’t happen without black people in the room—Yet it does
Urban planning can’t happen without black people in the room—Yet it does
- Nashville: Nashville Riverfront Concept Plan
Nashville: Nashville Riverfront Concept Plan
- Nashville: Riverside Project: B. Edward Ewing - Profile
Nashville: Riverside Project: B. Edward Ewing - Profile
- Nashville: To restore North Nashville’s Black middle class, local policymakers should pursue reparations
Addressing the economic conditions inhibiting college attainment North Nashville needs a reparations policy
- Nashville: East Bank Planning Study
Nashville: East Bank Planning Study