Seattle's High Point neighborhood combines traditional neighborhood design with advanced green building, engineered green infrastructure systems and social equity.
East and north of downtown is the Five Points district, named for the five-way intersection formed at Welton Street, 27th Street, East 26th Avenue, and Washington Street. One of Denver’s first streetcar suburbs, Five Points had declined in recent decades, but is now on the upswing.
The Upper Larimer/North Ball Park neighborhood, with a long history of industrial uses and many buildings shuttered, is one of the areas of change identified in Blueprint Denver. The revitalization of LoDo, the opening of nearby Coors Field, and new mixed-use zoning mechanisms combined to create interest in transforming the Blake Street Corridor into a mixed-use live-work neighborhood.
The tremendous success of Riverfront Park and the surrounding development encouraged the introduction of housing and other uses to another industrial area along the South Platte just north of Coors Field.
The inspired redevelopment of the Central Platte Valley is perhaps the model for Denver’s efforts to reinvigorate downtown. Recent redevelopment underscores Denver’s commitment to urbanism and reconnecting to the South Platte River.
A 1960s enclosed mall was torn down and is being replaced by a new downtown for a suburb of Denver. The 104-acre Belmar is a prime example of the opportunities that lie in the redevelopment of grayfield sites.
The Village at Hendrix, an extension of the small city of Conway, Arkansas, is being developed by Hendrix College. The project a fulfills a 1994 plan for the college by Duany Plater-Zyberk that calls for a mixed-use village adjacent to campus — located across US Route 65, a four-lane highway.
Beerline B takes its name from an old rail line that had served an assortment of breweries and other industries. The city controlled most of the 20 acres in the corridor, and acted as agent for other public agencies that held title to the rest of the land.
Torti Gallas, utilizing new urbanist principles, designed a project of sufficient density to allow the client to dedicate a larger number of units to people of lower income on the site of a distressed 1950s garden apartment development.
The Columbia Pike Special Revitalization District Form Based Code introduces livable approaches to redevelopment and revitalization throughout the Columbia Pike corridor. Instead of focusing on what is undesirable, Form Based Codes focus on the community’s design vision.
Pentagon Row charts an exciting direction in urban retail and residential development — it embraces smart-growth initiatives to serve a community and captures the romantic spirit of living above the shop.
With its intimate streets, neighborhood parks, and well-proportioned houses, Harbor Town has the feel of a resort town, although it is a year-round residential community.
Designed in 2003, New Town at St. Charles quickly established itself as one of the most popular new developments in the Midwest and an important example of greenfield New Urbanism.
Funded in the first round of HUD’s HOPE VI program in 1994, Pleasant View Gardens (formerly Lafayette Courts) was completed in September 1997. The project was designed in an interactive process with community residents, city agencies and the design team.
As the Town Planner for The King Farm, Torti Gallas provided the design leadership to create this vital, mixed-use community utilizing the principles of Traditional Neighborhood Design.
The remaking of the Terraces (formerly Lexington Terrace), formerly a severely distressed public housing development, was a team effort involving the developer, the architect, a community facilitator, financiers, realtors, and prospective residents.
The design of Twinbrook Commons is the result of a composite of ideas with one overarching concept: to seamlessly connect existing neighborhoods with a pedestrian-friendly transit-oriented environment.
Technically two projects, Kentlands and Lakelands in Gaithersburg, Maryland, are adjacent to each other, sharing a downtown, and are designed to form a single, integrated community.
