Creating Vibrant and Diverse Urban Spaces

Dr. Alicia Pederson is a writer and advocate who encourages cities to adopt courtyard urbanism, a style of development where mixed-use buildings surround a shared courtyard. Today, she joins Norm to explain the benefits of this development style and how to advocate for it.

• Drawing by Leon Krier

• 6 housing reforms that could help make courtyard blocks possible.

• Read more from Alicia:

  • Urban Courtyard (X/Twitter)

  • “Chicago’s affordable housing plan demands a courtyard block blueprint” Chicago Tribune

  • “The courtyard block solution to Chicago’s family flight problem” Chicago Tribune

  • “A better way to approach the challenge of Lincoln Yards” Crain’s Chicago Business

• Norm Van Eeden Petersman (LinkedIn)

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