The four- and five-story complex has wood framing, e-coat stucco and cool stone wainscots. It includes 20 percent affordable units in downtown San Jose, a transit-oriented location with bus and rail service. The first floor has 9,900 square feet of commercial space.
The Clocktower building in the Vickery Village Center is a mixed-use building that has retail on the first floor and residential units on the upper floors, and that serves as the focal point of the village center.
This 4-story stacked townhouse building on Bartram Street in Glenwood Park, Atlanta, Georgia, includes two-story townhouses on top of other two story townhouses.
This urban single-family house sits on a very small lot in Glenwood Park, Atlanta, Georgia. The is setback only a few feet from the sidewalk and tuck-under parking is provided off of an alley.
The Katrina Cottage is one of the most versatile ideas to have come out of the Mississippi Renewal Forum — charrettes that new urbanists conducted on the Gulf Coast of Mississippi in October 2005, after Hurricane Katrina devastated the region.
One of the most urbanistically interesting houses built in Washington, DC, in recent years belongs to Jeff Speck, design director of the National Endowment for the Arts from 2003 to 2007 and, before that, director of town planning at Duany Plater-Zyberk & Co.
The series of 22- and 24-foot-deep “liner” buildings placed along the edge of a parking lot on North Street in the Mashpee Commons development have infused that street with pedestrian activity.
This two-story structure in Habersham, designed by Brown Design Studio, has a street façade resembling a large detached house, yet it contains two units (1 per floor).
Because it takes a long time for some streets to develop into busy shopping precincts, new urbanists such as Torti Gallas and Partners have produced buildings whose ground floors can start off serving one use and be converted to another use when conditions are right.
The Nashville Main Library, designed by Robert A.M. Stern in 2001, is an excellent example of modern classical architecture in the heart of “Music City USA.”
