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A growing collection of the people, projects, places, institutions, and ideas shaping what comes next.

The opening collection. New entries are being added as the work develops.

The Opening Collection

A starting point for exploring the people, projects, and places shaping what comes next.

Builder

Austin Tunnell

Building Culture

Structural masonry and the culture of building craft.

Texas

Builder

Franziska Trautmann

Glass Half Full

Turning glass waste toward coastal restoration work.

Louisiana Coast

Project

California Forever

New Towns · California

A large-scale new-town effort in early public view.

Project

Glass Half Full

Resilience · Louisiana Coast

A materials and restoration project centered on glass reuse.

Builder

Austin Tunnell

Building Culture

Structural masonry and the culture of building craft.

Texas

Builder

Franziska Trautmann

Glass Half Full

Turning glass waste toward coastal restoration work.

Louisiana Coast

Project

California Forever

New Towns · California

A large-scale new-town effort in early public view.

Project

Glass Half Full

Resilience · Louisiana Coast

A materials and restoration project centered on glass reuse.

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Ideas

Topic

Housing & Neighborhoods

New Towns

Mobility

Public Space

Craft & Construction

Resilience

Civic Life

Builder

Austin Tunnell

Building Culture

Structural masonry and the culture of building craft.

Texas

Builder

Franziska Trautmann

Glass Half Full

Turning glass waste toward coastal restoration work.

Louisiana Coast

Builder

Jan Sramek

California Forever

New city ideas and long-horizon placebuilding.

California

Builder

Devon Zuegel

Esmeralda

Building civic life through place, community, and experiment.

California

Builder

Ryan Johnson

Culdesac

Car-light neighborhoods designed around everyday life.

Arizona

Builder

Laura Fingal-Surma

Building craft · California

California

Builder

Alicia Pederson

Courtyard Urbanist

Human-scaled housing patterns and building craft.

Minnesota

Builder

Coby Lefkowitz

Writing and field notes on urbanism, housing, and places.

United States

Builder

Chuck Marohn

Strong Towns

Civic thinking on resilient local places and public finance.

United States

Project

California Forever

New Towns · California

A large-scale new-town effort in early public view.

Project

Glass Half Full

Resilience · Louisiana Coast

A materials and restoration project centered on glass reuse.

Project

Culdesac Tempe

Mobility · Tempe, Arizona

A lived-in car-light neighborhood model in the desert.

Place

Camp North End

Public Space · Charlotte, North Carolina

A former industrial district becoming a civic gathering place.

Profile in progress

Transit · Northeast

A mobility entry is being assembled from field notes and source material.

Research underway

Main Street Revival · South

A place-based entry is being shaped around local context and construction detail.

Next in the collection

Civic Institution · Midwest

An institutional profile is being prepared for the collection.

Fieldwork underway

Coastal Resilience · Gulf

A coastal resilience entry is being developed with material and place context.

Research underway

Housing Innovation · West

A housing innovation entry is being prepared for future publication.

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