Courtyard Urbanist
Alicia PedersonCourtyard Urbanist, founded by Alicia Pederson, PhD, is a research and development brand advancing courtyard block design for North American cities, drawing on Europe’s best neighborhoods to upgrade U.S. cities with family-friendly courtyard blocks.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Twice weekly |
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| Issues | 33 | Founded | a year ago | Last Issue | 8 days ago |
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How Amsterdam is reviving the fine-grained courtyard block
At Centrumeiland, a new district in Amsterdam’s IJburg expansion, the city is avoiding one of the great failures of contemporary urban development, the large-parcel megaproject. Rather than handing the 37 acres over to a few large developer...
Courtyard Urbanist Market Brief: May
Dear Friend, Subscriber, and Courtyard Urbanism Enthusiast,
In May, the courtyard urbanism movement continued its shift from architectural idea into statutory language, code reform, and development strategy.
The most important housing-pol...
Governor Pritzker, Shakespeare, and the Right to Build Middle Housing
One Friday morning last month, I boarded the Brown Line downtown to hear Governor J.B. Pritzker deliver his State of the State address at the City Club of Chicago. When the Governor’s office invited me to attend, I rescheduled my prior comm...
The Policy We Need / The Policy We Have
Yesterday I posted a split-screen image on X/Twitter. One image showed valuable urban land used in an intelligent and pro-social manner. The other showed valuable urban land used ineptly as box stores and parking lots.
On the left, we have...
Invitation to join me at Edge City in California the final week of June
I wanted to flag it here because the final week - Environments of Tomorrow (June 22-27) - is about the things this community thinks about. It’s hosted by Kevin Fishner and Devon Zuegel, and it covers three threads: architecture and urbanism...
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Courtyard Urbanist, founded by Alicia Pederson, PhD, is a development brand advancing courtyard block design for North American cities, drawing on Europe’s best neighborhoods to revitalize U.S. cities with family-friendly housing.
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