
- Mar 13
- 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...

- Feb 24
- 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
- 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...


- Sep 24, 2020
- 9 min
Catalytic Redevelopment Part 4: Incremental Design
(This post is Part 4 of a series on evaluating catalytic development projects. Click here to read Part 3) In this series we have covered...


- Sep 24, 2020
- 5 min
Catalytic Redevelopment Part 3: Outside Subsidy
(This post is Part 3 of a series on evaluating catalytic development projects. Click here to read Part 2) So far in this series we’ve...


- Sep 23, 2020
- 7 min
Catalytic Redevelopment Part 2: Project Costs
(This post is Part 2 of KUA's guide to evaluating catalytic development projects. Click here to read Part 1: Setting Goals) In our last...


- Sep 23, 2020
- 8 min
Catalytic Redevelopment Part 1: Setting Goals
After over a year’s worth of engagement by respondents and community members, the Atlanta Beltline Inc. (ABI) recently announced that...


- 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...