WITH ITS HIP REPUtation and resourc...

WITH ITS HIP REPUtation and resource efficient sensibility, urban take the part ofs one of the solutions to the land and resource crunch that we at BUILDER masked in our January issue ("Material World," page 272) further as smart an answer as infill appears to be, infill builders know that the obstacles to this model of development never seem to last "Everything's designed to stop you," says Chris Branch, president of The Boulevard Co an infill developer in Charlotte, NC "It takes a tremendous amount of drive and persistence."

At the same time, Branch and others are making it work, generating