HeyJaredCourtyard Urbanist
Courtyard 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.
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The Courtyard Urbanism Renaissance Is Here (opens the original)
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Penn Plaza Block B: Concept Massing Study (opens the original)
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The Fine-Grained City Needs an Operating System (opens the original)
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From the Mushroom Kingdom to Haussmannian Paris (opens the original)
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How to Build a Fine-Grained City: Party Walls, Point Access, and the Granular Block (opens the original)
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A century ago, the Queensboro Corporation built the Greystones in Jackson Heights (above, left) as a coordinated development of fourteen contiguous apartment buildings on fourteen separate lots. The block was planned as a whole, but it remained granular, with separate buildings, addresses, entrances, and ultimately separate assets joined into a continuous street wall.Compare that with a contemporary project like Park Kennedy in Washington, D.C. (above, right), with 260 rental units above retail
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