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Courtyard Urbanist Market Brief: May
How stair reform, permit shot clocks, and by-right housing are turning courtyard urbanism from a beautiful idea into a buildable development model
May 31
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Alicia Pederson
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Governor Pritzker, Shakespeare, and the Right to Build Middle Housing
Pritzker is leading a national bipartisan movement to restore property owners’ right to build middle housing—and to recover a building tradition that…
May 23
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Alicia Pederson
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The Policy We Need / The Policy We Have
A viral post about a proposed retail development reveals public outrage with Chicago policy that makes it easier to build drive-to box stores than…
May 14
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Alicia Pederson
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Invitation to join me at Edge City in California the final week of June
Courtyard Urbanism conversation is headed Healdsburg, CA, June 22-27, and you are invited
May 11
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Alicia Pederson
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Courtyard Urbanist Market Brief
April 2026: The Courtyard Window Is Opening Wider
May 3
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Alicia Pederson
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April 2026
The Death of the Office Tower and the Rise of the Live-Work Neighborhood
People want to live near their workplace -- now more than ever -- and courtyard urbanism is here to make it happen at the highest possible level
Apr 26
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Alicia Pederson
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Copenhagen's New 5-Minute Neighborhood: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Why high-cost, coarse-grained development struggles to produce complete neighborhoods
Apr 19
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Setbacks, Parking, and the State Laws That Are Finally Removing Them
Idaho and Indiana remove key zoning barriers while Virginia and Florida show how reform still fails + pay attention to Illinois BUILD / SB 4060
Apr 12
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Alicia Pederson
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Chronicle #3: Illinois Is About to Legalize Courtyard Housing
Is this the first domino in a nation-wide movement?
Apr 8
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March Marketing Brief
Where Housing Systems Are Emerging, and What They Mean for Courtyard Urbanism
Apr 1
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Alicia Pederson
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March 2026
Make No Little Plans: A Call for Collaborators
Horizon Lines: Chicago Courtyard City by 2050
Mar 29
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Alicia Pederson
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A New White Sox Owner Has 47 Acres in the South Loop. I Have a Suggestion.
The success of a stadium district depends entirely on whether the surrounding neighborhood is built for daily life.
Mar 27
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Alicia Pederson
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