Southern Urbanism

@cityaestheticss If it's vinyl its final!

Imagine paying $500,000 to live in plastic houses like this

In 1999, Austin, TX, closed Robert Mueller Municipal Airport, the original city-owned airport, built 1928-30, and turned the site into a nice masterplanned New Urbanist suburb. Grid. Medium density. Tree-lined boulevards. On-site amenities. Classic vernacular architecture.

Atlanta's housing growth dropped from 4.8%/yr in the '70s to 0.6% today—same across the Sunbelt. Why? Consensus view blames regulation. But look at this map: housing drops >45 min drive. It's not regulation: they've run out of commutable land. New build is now urban infill.

The Urban Guild believes the next generation of designers is essential to advancing better places and stronger communities. Each year they celebrate student work at the Guild Summit—and now are making it easier for students to get involved with student memberships for $60/year ($5/month) for those looking to grow their careers while still in school. Click here to learn more + sign up loom.ly/AMC7R2I

"The fight for more socially vibrant cities won’t end with a zoning rewrite. At the end of the day, that’s not all we are fighting for. We are fighting for a culture that prioritizes equity, accessibility, safety, and even beauty." Read Billy Cooney's article today

@SouthernVillage @NewUrbanism

SITE PLAN SATURDAY We look at @SouthernVillage in #ChapelHill, developed by DR Bryan. @newurbanism

When you Google small towns in New England, the pictures that pop up almost always have steeples in them. The same is not true in the South. Why is that? Why have religious buildings become symbols of their towns? Read the answer at the link in our bio.

@lord60657 @UrbanCourtyard @treasury_space pastiche architecture

@UrbanCourtyard @treasury_space Carmel, Indiana tried this, and the results were terrible. A mishmash of dumbfuckery designs stuck together in a molten pile of crapitecture.

What a Courtyard Urbanist "refresh" of 1800 N. Clybourn could look like

In response to this spectacular setting, homes and civic buildings have been built in the classic architectural style of the Lowcountry and are located along canals and footbridges, tidal creeks, lakes and expanses of saltwater marsh.

The site is situated between quarried lakes and fresh water sloughs that lead to the saltwater marshes of Hobcaw Creek and the Charleston Harbor.

SITE PLAN SATURDAY! We look at #I'on in Mt. Pleasant, SC.

Modernists: “Beauty isn’t real it can’t hurt you” Beauty:

One reason college is the best time of everyone's life is that colleges are the only place in America free from planning regulations that functionally make courtyard housing illegal.

SITE PLAN SATURDAY We look at #Trilith in Fayetteville, GA, designed by Lew Oliver. It's built to support Trilith Studios, where a plurality of US filmmaking now happens.

Pickleball is a growing sport in a growing region. It’s coming. You can’t stop it. You can complain all you want about it on listservs. You can slander the pickleballers on social media. But trying to stop them is like trying to stop water flowing downhill.

Read #NewUrbanist architect Robert Orr's scathing take on #urbanplanner Harland Bartholomew. loom.ly/y7v0Q30