- Mar 13, 2023
- 4 min
Let's Keep Quick Fixing!
The City of Atlanta’s zoning rewrite is going to be a long slog. That’s why it’s not the right place to focus immediate efforts for folks...
- Mar 9, 2023
- 9 min
Thoughts on Zoning Strings
Zoning Past The City of Atlanta is exploring new ways to define and limit how properties are developed as part of the ongoing zoning...
- Feb 24, 2023
- 3 min
Power Plexes
In our previous post, we discussed powerful strategies to creatively expand housing choice in ‘single-family’ districts. These are...
- Feb 3, 2023
- 4 min
Creative Single-Family Infill
While single family only zoning still dominates land use patterns in most places, there are often overlooked and underutilized ways to...
- Jan 30, 2023
- 1 min
Attainable Housing Now
The need for attainable housing is the challenge of our time. The current human ecosystem is failing Americans, and updated approaches...
- Oct 29, 2020
- 8 min
Why ADUs Are So Hard To Build, and How Atlanta Could Make it Easier
Accessory dwelling units (ADUs) are a popular tool for addressing the nation’s affordable housing crisis. Every homeowner with an attic,...
- Apr 20, 2020
- 2 min
Love(able Neighborhoods) in the Time of Corona
After a month of social distancing, the KUA team is settling into our new normal. Aside from your standard working from home woes - hours...
- Feb 10, 2020
- 4 min
Partners for Better Places
Making places better takes a lot more than great architecture and urban design. Our work over the last decade has expanded beyond...
- Nov 12, 2019
- 4 min
KW Blog Turns Five – A Look Back at Our Favorite Posts
Today marks the five-year anniversary of our very first blog post. To mark the occasion, we took a look back at over 100 posts to select...
- Nov 1, 2019
- 3 min
PORTLAND YIMBYs, AND SO CAN YOU
Bayside Variety, Portland Maine (credit: John Phelan via Wikimedia Commons) We had the pleasure of visiting Portland, Maine this week to...
- Oct 31, 2019
- 3 min
Making Affordable Housing Cute Again
Atlanta has many charming historic Missing Middle Housing types, and we even have a new Missing Middle Housing zoning category to...