2015 CHARTER AWARDS GRAND PRIZE Iberville Offsites / P4

GRAND PRIZE / STUDENT Cities of a New Port Metropolis / P6

CHARTER AWARDS

UCLA Weyburn / P8 Code SMTX: Tactical Urbanism Intervention and Project Kickoff / P9 Hunters View / P10 Pearl Brewery Redevelopment Master Plan / P11 Transit Oriented Development Revitalization / P12 Aldershot / P13 Virginia’s Capitol Master Plan / P14 30 Years of Scripps College Campus Stewardship / P15 Plan El Paso / P16

AWARDS OF MERIT

Micro Lofts at The Arcade Providence / P17 Sullivan Station / P17 The Oval / P18 Arise / P18 Beaufort County Multijurisdictional Form-Based Code/Land Development Code / P19 University of Texas-Pan American Campus Master Plan / P19 Luhe City Center / P20 Sulphur Dell / P20 Master Plan for the Town of LaFox, Illinois / P21 Visions for Lafayette / P21 Mixed-use, walkable neighborhood development, as defined by the Charter of the New Urbanism, promotes healthier people, places, and economies. The members of CNU and their allies create positive change in communities all over the world. They design and build places people love.

The Charter Awards, administered The Charter identifies three major scales Charter Awards are given to projects annually by CNU since 2001, celebrate of geography for design and policy at each scale, and special recognition the best work in this new era of purposes. The largest scale is composed is reserved for the best projects at the placemaking. The winners not only of regions. The middle scale is made up professional and student levels. Honored embody and advance the principles of of neighborhoods, districts, and corridors. by the world’s preeminent award for the Charter—they also make a difference The smallest scale is composed of blocks, urban design, winners set new standards in people’s lives. streets, and buildings. for placemaking and community building.

P1 2015 Jury

Michaele Pride, AIA, NOM Marianne Cusato Michael J. Busha, AICP Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk Jeanne Anthony Hank Dittmar Steve Maun Professor & Associate Designer, Author, Executive Director Founder and Principal Project Advisor Director Principal Dean for Public Outreach and Lecturer Treasure Coast Regional Duany Plater-Zyberk and Education & Outreach Hank Dittmar Associates LeylandAlliance and Engagement, School of Planning Council Company Department, AARP Livable Architecture and Planning, Communities Not Pictured: University of New Mexico Anna Lowder Founder and Principal City Loft Corporation P2 Founding Principal, Matter LETTER FROM THE JURY CHAIR Enriching Lives with Urban Design & Architecture

The Charter of the New Urbanism, This year’s Grand Prize, Iberville For the second year in a row, a College deserves special attention, has reached an important signed 19 years ago, remains an Offsites, demonstrates the low-cost hands-on Tactical representing thirty years of threshold that allowed the jury to inspiring blueprint for improving movement’s engagement with Urbanism effort was honored with stewardship—careful planning and focus on built work, but there were communities all over the world. existing communities, restoring a Charter Award. Code SMTX in design, one building at a time—an also many excellent designs we The 27 Charter principles offer a affordable beautiful houses to San Marcos, Texas, in a single day excellent example of sustainability, hope will return once they are visionary alternative to suburban three New Orleans neighborhoods, transformed the way citizens view making a place lovable and under construction. sprawl and urban disinvestment. as they continue to recover from their downtown, kicking off conserving the embodied energy Hurricane Katrina. a charrette to reform the of buildings. I hope you appreciate these In the 15th year of the Charter city’s zoning. winners and their outstanding Awards, the jury reviewed 99 Iberville is funded by HUD’s Choice The CNU Awards of Merit are placemaking, and that this year’s projects from many continents, Neighborhoods program, a Two more awards honor Texas outstanding in their own right and awards will encourage you to guided by the Charter principles. successor to HOPE IV, the communities: Plan El Paso, just as diverse. submit your efforts next year! Those principles’ potential to nationwide initiative to remake implementing the SmartCode in impact how people live was on full public housing. CNU achieved an eight square miles of the sprawling The student entries were of a high display in the submissions. This early victory in shaping the design city, and the Pearl District, an caliber, all worth examining for year’s awards highlight the many standards for HOPE VI. Choice industrial site renewed as a social their variety. The Student Grand ways that urban design and Neighborhoods is enabling New and economic powerhouse for Prize, Cities of a New Port architecture enrich people’s lives in Urbanists to continue their work San Antonio. Metropolis, addresses a global Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk a wide range of settings. with community improvement, so it economic issue, showing how a 2015 JURY CHAIR is no surprise that more than one Other winners include a transit- port city in Central America can be The best efforts are victories that award recognizes this program. oriented development in Long designed to function as a may not be obvious. Though Hunters View is the other, Island, New York; the reuse of a human-scale city. technically and politically difficult replacing deteriorated public military base in Aldershot, to implement, the designs triumph housing in San Francisco with a Hampshire, England; a plan to In CNU’s 23rd year, as a cofounder with beauty, exhibiting the neighborhood. These and other refine Thomas Jefferson’s state of the organization, I felt privileged extraordinary skill of CNU winners demonstrate the social capitol district in Richmond, to review with colleagues the designers and developers. equity contributions of Virginia; and two university campus accomplishments of New Urbanists New Urbanists. projects in California. Scripps around the world. Our movement

P3 Grand Prize

P4 Iberville Offsites TURNING BLIGHT INTO BEAUTY

Firm: Kronberg Wall Architects Location: New Orleans, Louisiana Category: Block, Street, and Building

This year’s Grand Prize winner “Historic preservation is too often seen provides affordable housing for as the domain of the affluent and white, moderate-income families, establishes but this project is relevant to the lives of new standards for green historic a significant number of underprivileged preservation, and strengthens a city people of color that are able to afford still climbing back from one of the historic homes in neighborhoods where nation’s worst natural disasters. they would otherwise be out priced,” noted Eric Kronberg, of Kronberg Wall Iberville Offsites restores vernacular Architects, the firm responsible for houses in stunning fashion across three Iberville Offsites. New Orleans neighborhoods: Treme, Central City, and the Seventh Ward. The The project uses green technologies team skillfully used state and federal like solar panels and innovative tax credit programs to renovate 46 insulation that does no harm to the houses for low-income and racially historic integrity of the houses, and diverse long-time residents. meets current accessibility standards.

“It shows that it is possible to “Iberville is representative of so many rehabilitate homes on a large enough things that we are trying to do,” says scale that there is an immediate and architect and CNU cofounder Elizabeth significant economic impact that Plater-Zyberk. “Private initiative and creates affordable housing in the public support is skillfully combined.” process,” says Neal Morris, founder of Redmellon Restoration and Said Charter Awards juror Marianne Development, the developer. Cusato: “They’ve done all of the technical things, but the end result Iberville Offsites is Phase Two of is beautiful without aesthetic a project that has renovated more compromise.” than 100 houses as part of a federal Choice Neighborhoods grant. Choice Iberville Offsites does more than just Neighborhoods, the successor to house moderate-income families and HOPE VI, is designed to remake public keep tons of construction materials out housing using the principles of the of the landfill. It reknits the cultural and Charter for the New Urbanism—and social fabric of one of America’s great has produced two Charter Award cities, embodying the tenets of the Winners in 2015. Charter of the New Urbanism. Grand Prize Student

P6 Cities of a New Port Metropolis HOW PORTS COULD BE CITIES AGAIN

Until now, all major initiatives to create globalization will give way to more trade. Manufacturing neighborhoods two major train stations strategically The study of how Western civilization a port on the Atlantic Coast of Central localized manufacturing, and “free are integrated with financial districts. located to connect to the tram line and has built cities over time revealed America have failed to produce human- trade districts” in ports will cease to be Blue-collar workers labor side-by- within walking distance of a city center.” certain patterns of urban structure scale places due to the vast surface important. “Rather,” he believes, “the side with bankers, chefs, and fishing that have endured and provide today area required by modern hub-container whole city will be a place for free trade.” merchants—“All because everyone is The student used “organic design” to the platform for successful living, the facilities. Our Grand Prize student closer to the source… and gateway imagine their metropolis. “To design student reports. “Not only is this a winner is a counterproposal based on Cities of a New Port Metropolis uses a of trade.” a city in such a way that it may seem beautifully drawn project, it brings a the simple idea: Ports should grow block-and-street structure that extends like it grew over time, was one of the powerful theory of urbanism to life,” from real cities. to the waterfront, which is mediated In the project’s vision, transportation biggest lessons learned in this project. says Charter Awards jury member by public space or a hard edge such as is vital, and the plan maps major The study of port cities originally Hank Dittmar. The student, Rodrigo Bollat a wall. corridors by looking at the movement founded with the Laws of the Indies, Montenegro, starts with three of people. “Rail lines connecting to the their growth over the centuries, and premises: Maritime trade will always This framework makes use of activities main land penetrate the city together their present state informed the shape be important, the current tide of hyper- that thrive in the vicinity of maritime with the freight lines, and stop at of every block, street, and plaza.”

School: University of Notre Dame Location: Central America Category: The Region: Metropolis, City, and Town

P7 Charter Firm: Mithun | Solomon with STUDIOS Award UCLA Weyburn Architecture Location: Los Angeles, California FROM PARKING LOT TO URBAN TOUR DE FORCE Category: Block, Street, and Building

For the University of California in Los “The project masterfully achieves a very different destinations. The plan was The graduate students who live in abundant daylight for all the units,” Angeles, the UCLA Weyburn project high density, sensitively responding mostly ignored, save for one building the building come from all over the Mithun notes. is more than just graduate student to the scale and tower forms of the that created a beautiful, isolated world. They need a sense of community housing. The 500-unit apartment block adjacent town, while gracefully arcade. UCLA Weyburn builds on this and place amid surroundings Mithun employs a sensitive plan and and community building ties together connecting to the campus,” notes arcade to link the walkable southwest that are foreign. The new building design articulations to comfortably a fragmented part of the university’s Jeffrey Averill, UCLA’s campus architect, campus to the heart of the Westwood provides appealing outdoor public mingle UCLA Weyburn with smaller campus, realizing the vision of a who called the development an “urban neighborhood. The new building spaces, a community building with buildings in the neighborhood. The thirty-year-old master plan. Built on tour de force.” is organized around a grand public gathering places for students, and a campus becomes a good neighbor, what was formerly a two-acre parking paseo, providing a view of the tower of level of access and walkability that adding economic and social value to the lot on the edge of the UCLA campus, Thirty years ago, an ambitious Westwood’s landmark Fox Theater two integrates residents seamlessly into town. The building’s innovative serrated UCLA Weyburn is a landmark for the master plan for the area proposed a blocks away. the neighborhood. “The high amount footprint more than doubles the density surrounding neighborhood. pedestrian-friendly “spine” connecting of building perimeter also provides that the university expected on this awkward remnant site.

“My office looks onto the south elevation, so it’s always in view. It’s one of my favorite UCLA projects,” says Kathleen FitzGerald, UCLA’s Director of Project Development.

UCLA Weyburn represents a contemporary, community-focused interpretation of the Southern California Mission Revival tradition— showing that this style can be an inventive, living architectural language. By reimagining a leftover parking lot as a new residential and educational center for the campus and neighborhood, the project does a service to its community, as well.

P8 Charter Award Code SMTX: Tactical Urbanism Intervention and Project Kickoff IMPROVING DOWNTOWN — FOR PENNIES ON THE DOLLAR

Firm: Dover, Kohl & Partners Location: San Marcos, Texas Category: Block, Street, and Building

Code SMTX in San Marcos, Texas city residents gained a firsthand the ones debuted during the project, may carry the distinction of all-time understanding of what San Marcos— can even further reduce crashes. A fire least expensive winner. The return one of the fastest-growing cities in truck even drove down the street—to on investment for the city and for America—could achieve with better prove that emergency services would community members has been urban design and land-use regulations. not be impeded. significant. The intervention kicked off a week-long “Only a Tactical Urbanism intervention” For one day in June 2014, the City of charrette by Dover, Kohl & Partners to could have accomplished the kind San Marcos and Dover, Kohl & Partners develop a proposed form-based code. of public education and permanent worked to re-envision downtown using “Code rewrites and master planning changes achieved in San Marcos, notes so-called “tactical urbanism.” Workers typically take place in a board room Dover, Kohl & Partners. converted two blocks of street from and on paper, but not in San Marcos,” one-way to two-way traffic using exclaimed Jennifer Shell, city engineer. The team effectively engaged the temporary paint. An adjacent block city, the public, and transportation was closed to create a farmer’s market. San Marcos’s downtown is already engineers. In the end, the City of San Several “pop-up” parks were built in reviving, but placemaking and street Marcos presented a recommendation parking areas, lanes were narrowed, improvements could kick that process of changes in full detail, with correct and a two-way temporary cycle track into high gear. “Complete Streets, like widths for sidewalks, travel lanes, was installed. the one that this event demonstrated, and on-street parking—everything generate higher retail sales and demonstrated, proven, and publicized More than 3,000 residents and visitors provide a safer environment for in the SMTX project, ready to be visited the site, experiencing the value motorists, bicycles and pedestrians,” implemented permanently. of safer streets, local food, public notes Matthew Lewis, City Director of spaces, and worry-free bicycling—all Development Services. for a mere $1,300, or less than 50 cents a person. Additionally, the SMTX project could save lives. During the demonstration, Thanks to that exercise, the City of operating speeds on the street slowed San Marcos now plans to permanently to 15 to 20 miles per hour from convert South Lyndon B. Johnson the usual 30 to 45 miles per hour, Drive to two-way at an estimated significantly improving safety for all cost of $650,500. More importantly, users. Segregated biking facilities, like

P9 Charter Award Hunters View YESTERDAY A DANGER ZONE — TODAY, PURE SAN FRANCISCO

Firm: Mithun | Solomon Location: San Francisco, California Category: Neighborhood, District, and Corridor

By any measure, San Francisco ranks replicated neighborhoods on Russian among the world’s most beautiful cities. and Telegraph Hills in the older Yet for years, in a sector that tourists sections of San Francisco,” says John never see, 50 barracks-style buildings Stewart, the lead developer. constructed in 1943 housed 264 families in poverty and fear. Now, a new Hunters View displaces no public project is helping the community at housing residents—not even during Hunters View write a brighter future. construction, which is about a third underway. The new 16-block In contrast to the open city of neighborhood nearly triples the density magnificent views, says architect Dan of the site and includes affordable and Solomon of Mithun | Solomon, “half a market-rate homes along with block into the project one was replacement public housing, completely unaware of a world outside. community buildings, childcare Dead-end streets wound around the services, and even future shops. contours of the hill; buildings didn’t follow the streets and open space was The development brings order to a city what was left over—shapeless, residual, sector laid out in squiggly postwar un-owned, and terrifying. Kids who cul-de-sacs. Newly redesigned streets lived in the project were literally in lead directly to shops, transit, and other mortal danger if they ventured two services. New green spaces are created, blocks away to another isolated too, including a hilltop park with project and another fiercely defended panoramic views—a vernacular type of gang turf.” space native to San Francisco. A playground and field in Promontory The emerging Hunters View Park allow families to own million- community is secure, immeasurably dollar views of the Bay. Each block improves parks and public spaces, has a semi-private interior courtyard and is immediately recognizable as where small children play with even San Francisco. more security.

“Views of an adjacent building’s All added up, the newly rebuilt Hunters dumpsters became site lines to the View, which is part of the federal cityscape to the north and the new Bay government’s Choice Neighborhoods Bridge to the east. Streets became program, restores civilized living in a boulevards. The plan essentially package that is distinctly San Francisco.

P10 Charter Award Pearl Brewery Redevelopment Master Plan AN INDUSTRIAL SHELL BECOMES A POWERHOUSE

Firm: Lake|Flato Architects a farmer’s market. Thirty locally run District is 100 percent occupied, and a the terminus of the northern River A 500-kilowatt array in the district is Location: San Antonio, Texas businesses thrive in the district, which future phase is expected to bring more Walk extension, tying the site into a the largest solar roof installation in Category: Neighborhood, District, is known for its restaurants. activity. regionally significant natural asset. Texas. A combination of design and and Corridor connectivity reduce parking needs. “The project’s nationally recognized A decade ago, the adaptive reuse of a The Pearl District has become the Residents and visitors have multi- Culinary Institute has cultivated warehouse according to LEED Gold hub of thousands of new residents modal transportation options, including young, local chefs in the district,” note standards ignited the planning and in the city’s revitalizing River North a bike-share station on site. Lake|Flato Architects, the firm behind development of adjacent properties neighborhood. The famous San At the turn of the millennium, the 26- the plan. The Pearl District is home to at Pearl Brewery. Four other historic Antonio River Walk is a mecca for The Pearl District is a model for acre Pearl Brewery in San Antonio was three nonprofit organizations: the San renovations followed, including an oval- tourists, but the Pearl District is a energizing the underutilized city, abandoned and desolate—a collection Antonio Area Foundation, the Nature shaped stable now used as ballroom, center for local activity. strengthening local businesses, of empty buildings and pavement Conservancy of Texas, and the Hispanic plus new mixed-use buildings and advocating sustainable design with only five trees. Now, thanks to Chamber of Commerce. Three hundred constructed of similar materials. The entire district was built without strategies. an ambitious Redevelopment Master and fifty households, a 150-room hotel, street curbs, allowing flexibility for Plan, the site is an economic and social offices, and educational and retail Five hundred new trees, native ground public gatherings like the farmer’s powerhouse, drawing an average of space occupy 300,000 square feet of plants, and green roofs brought the market. Public spaces abound, more than 10,000 visitors to events salvaged and new buildings. The Pearl landscape back to life. The district is including an outdoor amphitheater. weekly, including 3,000 shoppers at Firm: Torti Gallas and Partners and the Town of Babylon Location: Wyandanch, Babylon, New York Charter Category: Neighborhood, District, and Corridor Award Transit Oriented Development Revitalization

TRANSFORMING A DISTRESSED LONG ISLAND COMMUNITY

The center of Wyandanch, New York different and beautiful is happening The public sector is investing big in Meanwhile, three new neighborhood will surround a public plaza. Featuring is a sea of parking fronting a fading there,” Kimberly Jean-Pierre, Director Wyandanch, including water and sewer centers—brilliantly embedded into the fountains, ice skating in winter, and commercial strip in the middle of an of Wyandanch Community Resource lines, Complete Streets, structured urban fabric—will remake a mile and space for festivals and cultural events, economically distressed community. Center, told The New York Times. “This parking for commuters, health and a half of a commercial strip corridor the plaza will form the heart of That scene is about to change. This is going to be a major improvement in youth centers, new parks and playing called the Straight Path. The new downtown—a place where Wyandanch area will soon be Long Island’s first our quality of life.” fields, and greenways that connect to development is expected to transform will live, work, and play. major transit-oriented neighborhood— a regional open space system. That the community of 10,000 and create a opening in 2015. “The fact that Wyandanch, with all of investment is leveraging $500 million in model for connecting land use to transit its problems, is the first place on Long private investment that will bring more on Long Island. Already, 177 housing units above shops Island where you’re going to have a than a thousand new housing units are built or under construction next major transit-oriented development and 189,000 square feet of commercial This kind of powerful and useful public to a public square by Wyandanch’s is amazing,” Suffolk County Executive space—much of which is already under space is needed all over suburban Long commuter rail station. “People were Steve Ballone told The Wall Street construction. Island, a sprawling area of more than skeptical at first that this would ever Journal. 2.8 million people. Shops, residences, happen, but every day something and civic and social service buildings P12 Charter Award

Aldershot TOWN IS EXTENDED WITH AFFORDABLE HOUSING AND LANDMARK BUILDINGS

Firm: ADAM Urbanism Location: Aldershot, Hampshire, United Kingdom Category: Neighborhood, District, and Corridor

One of the largest brownfield housing in a range of carefully designed The design team was careful to a military hospital,” say the designers, The town is surrounded by countryside, developments in the United Kingdom building types connected to two primary preserve the culture of the place. “with its classical pedimented façade and the development will maintain the has produced a sustainable town schools, day-care facilities, and a new “Military barracks are by their nature and flamboyant clock tower dominating urban-rural edge by preserving 250 extension that meets the local mixed-use town center. The blocks, closed, yet, through their connection the skyline on the top of the ridge.” acres in parks and open land. Natural community’s most urgent needs. The streets, and dwellings are creatively with historical events, contain a wealth woodland, green playing fields, and reuse of a military installation in organized—governed by a code that of memories and associations which “So many former military facilities are mature tree plantings abound, making Aldershot, England, known as “The ensures a strong sense of place. are important to society as a whole,” simply scraped clean, but the designers the site ideally suited to become a new Home of the British Army,” offers three note designers ADAM Urbanism. have been careful to keep not only the sustainable residential development. vital assets: affordable housing in The old military base was laid out on best buildings, but also the best spaces walkable and connected neighborhoods, a rectangular grid, and that will be The section of the base being and the core network, ensuring that protection of green space, and preserved—an unusual pattern in redeveloped is adjacent to the old town the past informs the future community preservation of landmark buildings. British towns. The grid will merge with and includes a parade ground lined with of Aldershot,” says Hank Dittmar, a existing residential thoroughfares in heritage buildings that forms a pivotal London-based urban designer and The development’s 3,850 dwellings multiple locations. public place. “Particularly noteworthy Charter Awards jury member. will include 35 percent affordable among the historic buildings on site is

P13 Firm: Wallace Roberts & Todd Location: Richmond, Virginia Charter Category: Neighborhood, District, Award Virginia’s Capitol Master Plan and Corridor BRINGING JEFFERSON’S VISION INTO THE 21ST CENTURY

When Thomas Jefferson designed the Independence: It can benefit a The project improves stormwater fronted by two new office buildings benefit to the Commonwealth,” the state capitol in Richmond, Virginia in community far into the future. management and energy efficiency and and “provides a new gathering space authors report. “It also provides 1788, he never envisioned a campus provides alternatives to automobile with pedestrian amenities for visitors recommendations to improve energy of 24 state-owned buildings with 3.3 Now, Virginia’s Capitol Master Plan use in a congested area. A parking and office employees,” notes Wallace efficiency, reduce operational and million square feet of floor space. provides a long-term vision for structure replaces scattered surface Roberts & Todd. Water-oriented parks, maintenance costs, and achieve the Nevertheless, the nation’s oldest state renewing a campus that has been parking lots that have scarred the porous paving, and underground Commonwealth’s sustainability goals capitol still commands the site and scarred by parking lots and poor district. The design incorporates a stormwater storage will reduce the for the next 5 to 30 years.” overlooks one of the few large green pedestrian connections and serves as planned Bus Rapid Transit system. impervious surface of the overall spaces downtown. the basis for organizing, budgeting, complex from 85 percent to 61 percent. In other words: It carries Thomas and funding long-range capital A major new public space called the Jefferson’s design into the 21st Century. That’s the power of strong architecture improvements. Modernizing the Virginia Green is proposed to unite Virginia’s Capitol Master Plan and urban design, in this case by the existing 50-plus-year-old building stock the historic square with the less- “maximizes useful space within the author of the Declaration of and renovating historic assets are key compelling eastern part of the Capitol Capitol Square complex in order components of the plan. Square Complex. Virginia Square is to bring efficiency and economic

P14 Firm: Moule & Polyzoides, Architects and Urbanists Charter Location: Claremont, California Category: Neighborhood, District, Award 30 Years of Scripps and Corridor College Campus Stewardship USING DESIGN TO STRENGTHEN ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL VALUE IN AN INSTITUTION

Scripps College was first designed in “At the end of this period, there was When it comes to place, culture because of the care and craft that have 1927—a jewel of a California Mission– enough confidence gained through 20 is closely related to sustainability. been lavished over it over 30 years style institution in a small-town years of piecing the campus together Among the lasting contributions of the by its master planners,” says Hank setting. Then the middle of the 20th that the Pool & Field House project was stewardship project is the successful Dittmar, a Charter Awards jury member. Century delivered punishing blows carried out at a level of programmatic long-term engagement of campus “The results argue strongly for continuity through “thirty years of abandonment, ambition and physical quality matching leaders. in campus planning and architecture, thoughtless and contrary design that the work of the 1920s.” rather than following the latest design undermined the essential qualities “Scripps College is clearly a well-loved trends in a slavish manner.” and character of this campus.” The third phase, which began in 2010, place, and this must be in large part Now, after three decades of careful will complete the campus based on nurturing using principles of the lessons learned in the last quarter Charter, the former glory is restored century. “A campus’s value as an in a modern re-imagining of the educational asset is significantly affected college that includes new buildings, by its success as a place,” the designers walkways, and landscapes that at Moule & Polyzoides learned. amplify a sense of place. Also, the layout and architecture of an The first phase, 1982 to 1994, institution has a powerful impact on stabilized the campus through discreet, the people who use it. “Valued rituals small projects—mostly restorations of campus life closely connect to a rich and additions to existing facilities existing fabric of pedestrian gathering and gardens. The second phase spaces and routes which connect to through 2010 guided the design of new the surrounding community,” the buildings and landscapes through a designers explain. new campus plan. Organization: City of El Paso Location: El Paso, Texas Charter Category: The Region: Metropolis, Award City, and Town Plan El Paso LAYING THE GROUNDWORK FOR A HEALTHIER CITY AND REGION

The City of El Paso grew up around more than thirty additional officials in The plan immediately spurred rail and the streetcar but, like most the process—an initiative that is helping development: “During the planning American cities, it was remade for to change the culture of City Hall. process, a 30-acre dead mall site in the automobile and sprawled far into Northeast El Paso was redesigned as the countryside in the 20th Century. “Based on the Plan, the El Paso a mixed-use walkable neighborhood Now, new developments are focused Planning Department is making strides anchored by a new transit terminal. The on people while the city is reoriented toward a more livable, pedestrian place SmartCode was then applied to the site. toward transit, walking, public places, complete with mixed-use zoning, street The transit terminal will be a terminus and mixed-use. trees and public transit,” says Geoffrey for one of the city’s four new bus rapid Wright, chairman of the City Plan transit lines emanating from Downtown Plan El Paso revamped zoning laws Commission. “It is a goal of the Plan El Paso.” The city recently received a and redirected investment across this Commission to densify our suburban $10.3 million federal grant to build the city of 800,000, the largest on the city, which is like so many other terminal at the center of mixed-use Texas-Mexico border. post-automobile western cities.” development. Construction is slated to begin next year. In the first three years after the plan The plan simply “lays the groundwork was adopted, the city built a new for how to create … a healthier city and Partly as a result of this plan, written baseball stadium downtown, created region,” says Michael Kelly, director by Dover, Kohl & Partners, the El Paso parks and renovated public spaces, of programs for Paso Del Norte City Council adopted a 5-mile-long completed future land-use plans based Health Foundation. streetcar plan, and the Texas DOT has on the SmartCode, and streamlined approved $97 million in funding. “After permitting for developers using the a 40-year hiatus, streetcars will again code. Eighty city officials received be part of El Paso’s identity.” AFTER formal New Urbanism training, with

BEFORE Merit Merit Award Award

Micro Lofts at The Arcade Providence Sullivan Station Firm: VOA Associates Incorporated Location: Chicago, Illinois A SMALL LIVING REVIVAL AFFORDABLE LIVING ON THE LAKE Category: Block, Street, and Building

Firm: Northeast Collaborative Architects many cities are promoting as a solution to over- Sullivan Station, spearheaded by VOA of needs, and a generous multi-purpose space Location: Providence, Rhode Island demand for urban housing. Associates Incorporated, repairs a Chicago with access to a landscaped garden.” Category: Block, Street, and Building neighborhood torn by mid-20th Century Even prior to opening, the developer had urban renewal. The five-acre site was part Sullivan Station offers a variety of affordable, 300 applicants for the building, which offers of a low-rise South Side neighborhood torn subsidized, and market-rate rents to an area One of the nation’s most beautiful and historic numerous amenities to young professionals. apart to build high-rise public housing that deeply in need of all three. An 81 unit, 8-story shopping arcades was restored as 48 affordable The location means easy access to world-class was, in turn, demolished in the 1990s due to building features a mix of one-bedroom and micro-lofts, rents starting at $550 per month, institutions Brown University and the Rhode unlivable conditions. two bedroom units. The building steps down and 17 small retail spaces in Providence, Rhode Island School of Design—plus thousands of jobs. on four stories on its west side in deference Island. The Arcade Providence project, completed This part of Chicago, heavily damaged by to vintage two-story homes on South Lake in 2012, helps keep young professionals Residents are offered parking in a nearby garage, bad planning, is still in need of revitalization. Park Avenue. In addition, 13 new low-rise and artists downtown and is a major step in but many do not drive because of the walkability, Unfortunately, residents are sensitive and buildings provide 51 three- and four-bedroom revitalizing the city. car-share and transit options, and bicycle storage even cautious in the face of new development, apartments for larger families. As the real facilities on site. Shared balcony walkways having suffered through multiple destructive estate market in the neighborhood grows “Providence has shown that bold vision and leading to the apartments promote socializing. waves of urban renewal. Responding to the stronger, more low-rise buildings and a condo creative planning can be an economic boon to Gathering spaces add to the sense of community, community’s concerns about design, the tower will complete the 269-unit development. a city. From creating more downtown housing including a secured lounge, laundry room, and architects used Norman brick accented with to providing retail space for local entrepreneurs, exterior balconies on the building’s façade. decorative stone lintels, sills and belt courses, The units, with their bay windows, provide to rehabilitating a beautiful and historic and painted steel floor-to-ceiling bay windows. spectacular views of Lake Michigan. Sullivan building … the project is a great example of The 400-square-foot retail spaces promote start- “Attention to craft and architectural details, Station is grouped around an existing lakeside economic development that just works,” says up businesses. “Many tenants are artisans, and influenced by the community planning process, park. Residents have access to public Mayor Jorge Elorza. the project functions as an incubator for young complements the fine detailing of vintage transportation. Sustainable features include professionals,” note Northeast Collaborative homes nearby,” they note. rain gardens, stormwater storage, and green The 1828 Greek revival building is a national Architects, the designers. roofing, earning a LEED silver rating. “The historic landmark and was named one of the The project provides “bright, comfortable overall appearance celebrates the city’s nation’s finest commercial buildings. The arcade Providence is finding that preservation done apartments for our residents,” said the chair architectural heritage and complements connects two primary streets with a stunning well is contagious. “The adaptive reuse of the of a neighborhood steering committee. “It the existing vintage masonry architecture sky-lit arcade. After closing in 2008, the building project has been a driver for economic recovery also provides indoor parking, offices for social of the neighborhood.” was endangered until the developer proposed a in Providence’s Financial District.” service agents to help residents with a variety $7 million reuse project with micro-units, which P17 Merit Merit Award Award

Arise REVITALIZING A POST-INDUSTRIAL CITY

Firm: ADAM Architecture The Oval Firm: Torti Gallas and Partners and the City of South Bend Location: Kennington, London, England Location: South Bend, Indiana Category: Block, Street, and Building MAKING A BOLD ENTRANCE Category: Neighborhood, District, and Corridor

In the heart of London, The Oval—England’s “The Surray County Cricket Club is delighted most historic cricket ground—welcomes with the new portico entrance and it has been Created by the City of South Bend and the firm The Olive Cultural District, a neighborhood visitors from across the world. Now, thanks to universally praised as an outstanding design Torti Gallas and Partners, Arise sets the goal of center on the Western Avenue corridor, this project from ADAM Architecture, The Oval’s which provides a commanding and iconic using limited resources to create a visionary— is installing curbs and sidewalks, trees, welcome is even more inviting. entrance to the ground. It provides a much yet immediately implementable—plan to pedestrian-oriented lighting, and street more welcoming and impressive public face to revitalize 10 struggling neighborhoods on the furniture in 2015. A façade improvement The southern front of The Oval, located in the the ground, and has inspired a feeling of pride west side of the shrinking post-industrial city. program, using matching grants, has also neighborhood of Kennington, was replaced with amongst both Club staff and visitors alike,” been introduced, with 15 projects slated for a new entrance featuring a four-story portico. notes Richard Gould, chief executive of the Club, Currently, two corridors that feel like completion in the first year. The new facade opens the 23,000-person which owns the facility. “truck-oriented highways,” plagued by vacant stadium “to the local area and beyond, in order properties, run through the neighborhoods. The The city is moving to acquire 138 vacant to be wholly inclusive and welcoming to its Mayor Boris Johnson exclaimed: “The new new plan focuses on walkability, placemaking, parcels for residential development and park neighbours and visitors.” portico and public space at the cricket ground façade improvement, better transit, parcel and cemetery expansion. Torti Gallas created is a fantastic scheme—and we want more of consolidation, and redevelopment to vision plans for residential and commercial Prior to the renovation, the forecourt had been this sort of thing.” convert the corridors to a series of distinct development in key consolidated parcels. A covered in blacktop pavement and enclosed neighborhood centers. “tactical urbanism” project on Western Avenue by 10-foot-high advertisements, completely Where the forecourt meets the street, the in October of 2014 by community members obscuring the area from the local community original gate designed in 1934 by noted Just six months into the project, created pop-up retail, a pop-up park, and that surrounds the facility. Durable surface architect Louis de Soissons was restored and implementation is well underway and the painted building facades. materials replaced the tarmac to better relocated to align with the forecourt. Decorative private sector is responding by building the first accommodate pedestrian and vehicle traffic. ironwork makes reference to the restored gate significant residential development in the area Two hundred and twenty-four residential as the centerpiece of the new design. in 90-plus years, Torti Gallas reports. units, 62,000 square feet of retail, and 52,000 The advertising “was removed and has been square feet of office space are planned for replaced with splendid gates contained within “The new pavilion portico, entrance forecourt The city is spending $3.9 million to transform the neighborhood centers in the next five railings. This makes it possible to secure the and perimeter railings bring to fruition a long the Lincolnway West corridor, including years. Along a rail spur, 200,000 square feet of forecourt perimeter in the event of potential overdue transformation of this historic site, restriping, bike lanes, on-street parking, trees, industrial uses is planned. Immediately after threats or, more ordinarily, for the gates to be and create a grand new main entrance that is property acquisition, a form-based code, and the plan was initiated, a developer was given held open to render the perimeter and forecourt worthy of this world famous cricket ground.” engineering work. Another $2 million is pending. low-income tax-credit approval for 18 new wholly accessible,” the designers explain. The bus network is moving from a “flag system” single-family houses. to designated bus stops and shelters—four are P18 slated for construction in 2015. Merit Merit Award Award

Beaufort County Multijurisdictional University of Texas – Pan American Form-Based Code/Land Development Code Campus Master Plan A REGIONAL TOOL FOR RESILIENCE CONNECTING TOWN AND GOWN TO BUILD PROSPERITY AND HEALTH

Firm: Opticos Design Firm: Barnes Gromatzky Kosarek Architects with Michael Dennis & Associates Location: Beaufort County, South Carolina Location: Edinburg, Texas Category: The Region: Metropolis, City, and Town Category: Neighborhood, District, and Corridor

Beaufort County, a Lowcountry South Carolina range of people and places, “from the unique This master plan, designed for the University and psychological barrier,” the architects note. region of historic towns and magnificent Gullah community and heritage found on the of Texas-Pan American, is far more ambitious “City streets bordering campus lack pedestrian estuaries, is growing at a phenomenal rural island of Saint Helena, to the rapidly than the typical campus plan. It creates a and bicycle amenities, and accidents are a rate—putting pressure on public services, urbanizing highway corridor to Hilton Head and framework to build community prosperity, regular occurrence.” infrastructure, quality of life, and the natural the quaint town setting of Port Royal,” Opticos educate global citizens, and promote healthy environment. Now, a form-based code Design reports. living in the Rio Grande Valley, all while The new campus master plan uses new backed by a shared growth vision in three increasing student enrollment and expanding construction to create better public spaces Comprehensive Plans has been devised as a Instead of subdivisions, shopping centers, and housing. The phased strategy would triple the within the campus and create “a bridge to the key tool to achieve a more sustainable future. office parks, the code anticipates development university’s facilities, enhance campus beauty, neighboring city, filling the ‘no man’s land’ in the form of neighborhoods, hamlets, town and strengthen connections to the city. that currently isolates the campus with new “The Code recognizes that Beaufort County has centers, and other “place types” with a academic and residential neighborhoods.” a very diverse natural and built environment,” definable character, based on the rural-urban “By implementing a few changes in street notes Rob Merchant, county planner, “and Transect. structure, landscaping, and densifying The project promotes safety through new provides context-sensitive tools that promote development, the city can create a successful streetscape guidelines that establish a walkable urbanism distinguishing between Photo documentation, mapping, and assessing ‘college town’ atmosphere that would thrive vehicular, pedestrian, and bicycle hierarchy. a small, traditional rural crossroads and the form of rural development patterns and with our campus community” explains Marta Speeds are reduced, travel lanes are narrowed, an urban neighborhood on the edges of a their relationship with the natural environment Salinas-Hovar, planner for UTPA. “The mayor sidewalks are clearly marked, bike paths municipality.” The code was created in close were critical to the process. The unique aspects and city leaders were excited with the potential are provided, and pedestrian crossings are cooperation with the city of Beaufort and the of low country urbanism and architecture were economic boost to the city.” enhanced and increased. The project advocates towns of Bluffton and Port Royal to map a reinforced throughout the code and within the redevelopment of the neighboring seamless transition between municipalities and supporting architectural guidelines. The campus in the heart of the nation’s fastest commercial strip, which, aligned with the city’s the county, Merchant says. growing region is well sited: two blocks from master plan, will help revitalize downtown. At 924 square miles, Beaufort County is one Edinburg’s city hall, and a few more blocks Extensive community engagement was built of the largest jurisdictions to adopt a form- from the county courthouse and deteriorating “With obesity at epidemic levels in the region, into the process, including a series of four based code. The code is designed to protect town square. Despite its location, the campus increased opportunities for recreation and multi-day charrettes focusing on sub-regions of natural and undeveloped land from sprawling currently feels disconnected. movement are not just desirable but crucial to the county. This public process covered a wide development patterns far into the future. the future well-being of students and the larger “Buildings are pulled back from campus edges, community,” the architects write. and a ring of parking creates both a physical P19 Merit Merit Award Award Student

Luhe City Center Sulphur Dell A MODEL FOR MORE SUSTAINABLE GROWTH IN CHINA REVITALIZING A BLIGHTED VOID NEAR DOWNTOWN

Firm: Thadani Architects + Urbanists School: University of Maryland, School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation Location: Luhe, Jiangsu Province, China Location: Nashville, Tennessee Category: The Region: Metropolis, City, and Town Category: Neighborhood, District, and Corridor

No place on Earth is urbanizing more rapidly Luhe is designed using classic city-building Just north of downtown Nashville, a 90- The project’s green benefits are many. The plan than China. In Luhe, one of the country’s principles. A large central square, strongly acre void of parking and low-rise industrial calls for 800 new trees and the installation new urban expansion areas, Nanjing Urban defined by surrounding buildings, will provide buildings separates the city’s central business of 320,000 square feet of green roofs. New Planning Bureau proposed to expand the city a strong place for community events. The core, district from the revitalizing Germantown residents could go car-free or car-light, cutting by developing a 60-mile corridor for 4.5 million containing the tallest buildings, is bounded by neighborhood. The area is both a barrier to their transportation costs while they get more people. The plan would have consumed vital three primary thoroughfares. These streets, economic development and an opportunity. The exercise in this in-town area. land along Luhe’s stretch of the Chuhe River, each enhanced with a greenway, lead to bridges Nashville Sounds baseball stadium is already wiping out agriculture and phasing out industry. designed for pedestrian, bicycle, and vehicular under construction in the area, intended to spur With the Sulphur Dell project connecting their traffic crossing the Chuhe River and a canal. revitalization. communities, residents in Germantown and “We successfully argued against this linear downtown would gain access to the river and proposal in favor of maintaining green A tree-lined boulevard encircles the entire Students from the University of Maryland public spaces in the Dell. “The pedestrian- corridors that made several polycentric cities,” central business district, connecting mixed- designed a dense, mixed-use neighborhood oriented neighborhood stitches the urban writes designer Dhiru Thadani. “Each new use neighborhoods adjacent to the downtown called Sulphur Dell—organized around strong fabric between these two districts and creates autonomous city would be developed around an and residential neighborhoods beyond. The public spaces and a new pedestrian-bicycle regional connections through north-south existing village or town and could accommodate thoroughfare links a series of pocket parks street called the Dell Stroke. In four phases that transit corridors,” the students write. 600,000 to a million inhabitants.” and gardens that are planned within the take into account real estate market dynamics, development. The entire 875-acre city center is the plan calls for 1,800 residential units and The Dell Stroke is anchored at one end by After shifting the region to a more sustainable wrapped with a “ribbon drive” that links more retail, office, and civic buildings. When built out, a compelling riverfront park and at the growth pattern in 2013, Thadani was retained parks. the plan will create 2,400 long-term jobs and other end by the existing Bicentennial Mall to design the city center of Luhe, one of the tally $40 million in new property tax income that terminates at the state capitol. “This polycentric cities. The resulting plan calls for Streets and a bridge are already under annually for the city. The plan provides 360 proposal’s placemaking strategy draws from 5,500 residential units, 8.5 million square feet construction for this project, which includes new affordable homes available to moderate- and complements the unique character of of commercial development, and millions of affordable housing. In a part of the world income people downtown. Nashville,” the students write. “Amenities square feet of schools and cultural facilities where much of the current development is and establishments such as the ballpark and like an opera house, library, museums, and unsustainable, Luhe City Center provides a This proposal “found creative but financially Cumberland River provide a neighborhood exhibition hall. model for smarter growth. feasible ways of building off the area’s identity that could spark future development.” strengths while attending to the concerns of flood resilience and healthy living,” says Fannie P20 Mae board member Bart Harvey. Merit Merit Award Award Student Student

Master Plan for the Town of LaFox, Illinois Visions for Lafayette A NEW AGRARIAN TOWN, CONNECTED TO THE CITY IDEAS FOR A HEALTHY COMMUNITY AND MEDICAL COMPLEX

Organization: University of Notre Dame, School of Architecture Organization: University of Notre Dame Graduate Urban Design Class of 2013 Location: LaFox, Illinois Location: Lafayette, Louisiana Category: The Region: Metropolis, City, and Town Category: Neighborhood, District, and Corridor

The vast majority of the United States’ to nearby recreational trails. Parks, squares, Among all types of development, new hospital Hospital officials took part in the project metropolitan edge is currently built in low- street trees, and nearby forests absorb carbon districts are, ironically, among the least charrette, and “the proposal helped them density, disconnected sprawl. Now, in LaFox, and encourage a healthy lifestyle. walkable places in America—despite the realize the many synergies between this kind of Illinois, students are envisioning a new low-rise positive health affects of walking. built environment and their mission of a holistic agrarian railroad town—with greater density Existing rail connections, a form-based code, approach to healthy living,” the students say. than Chicago—surrounding an existing station. and an innovative tax structure promote University of Notre Dame Urban Design By taking advantage of an opportunity area, entrepreneurial activity and dwelling choice. students from the class of 2013 provided a “At first skeptical of losing its visibility from this proposal offers a refreshingly pragmatic vision for building an urban neighborhood the parkway and of sacrificing much-needed alternative to conventional development. In an agricultural region defined by large-scale around a modern medical complex, among parking to mixed-use buildings, our hospital corn and soybean agriculture, other agrarian other wide-ranging solutions proposed in clients soon realized the many advantages of Fertile farms threatened by suburbanization interests can be satisfied with community Visions for Lafayette, a new plan designed for maximizing the development potential of their surround the site, which is linked to Chicago’s garden plots and nearby 5- to 40-acre cash the mid-sized Louisiana city. land.” regional transportation system. LaFox is now crop farms and orchards. A centrally located a hamlet occupied by an east-west freight farmers’ market would allow all residents to The mixed-use medical district includes new The team also redesigned infill sites downtown, and commuter rail line, a large parking lot, enjoy locally grown produce. public spaces, a canal, two neighborhood which spurred conversations among citizens scattered light industrial buildings, and a churches, a school, and a variety of retail, and officials about redevelopment opportunities cluster of houses along LaFox Road. The students proposed that Kane County’s housing, and recreational amenities. that continue in 2015. A historically African property tax assessment system be replaced American private school, in decline and The proposed town would occupy 1,240 acres with a Land Value Tax that would tax only land The isolation of the hospital “requires suffering from falling enrollment, was another (nearly two square miles), and accommodate and not buildings or other improvements. reconsideration,” the team explains, “in light focal point of the plan. 25,000-35,000 residents. LaFox maximizes Empty parcels would be taxed as high as of evidence indicating the substantial health healthy lifestyle options through transportation developed land, encouraging efficient land use. benefits of just 30 minutes of daily moderate “The Notre Dame work was relevant to choices and connections to nature. All residents physical activity (e.g. walking) as well as trends generating hope for the Holy Rosary Institute,” would live within a 20-minute walk to trains LaFox’s rail line ships both raw materials and in health care that are shifting away from a says Nathan Norris, CEO of Downtown to Chicago, other towns, and hundreds of finished goods, which creates opportunities for treatment-based model to a preventative one, Lafayette. “I am hopeful that their work will thousands of jobs. local manufacturing. Special industrial districts from an inpatient setting to outpatient care, and serve as a catalyst for something good to are planned for the blocks where trains enter from an acute approach to a holistic one.” happen on that large site.” In the plan, well-defined streets provide and leave town, with space for rail sidings pleasant walking and bicycling, and a tree-lined behind loft buildings. P21 perimeter path connects joggers and cyclists Credits P4 P8 P10

IBERVILLE OFFSITES UCLA WEYBURN HUNTERS VIEW NEW ORLEANS, LA LOS ANGELES, CA SAN FRANCISCO, CA Kronberg Wall Architects (Architect) Dan Solomon, Mithun | Solomon (Designer) Mithun | Solomon (Architect) Redmellon Restoration and Development STUDIOS Architecture (Architect) John Stewart Company (Lead Developer) (Developer) University of California, Los Angeles (Client) Devine & Gong (Co-Developer) J.W. Drennan Construction (Contractor) Nabih Youssef and Associates (Structural Ridgepoint Non-Profit Development Corp. The New Orleans Redevelopment Authority Engineer) (Co-Developer) (Public Agency / Partial Funder) IBE Consulting Engineers (Mechanical, Structural Design Engineers New Orleans Women’s Shelter Plumbing, Fire Protection Engineer) (Structural Engineer) (Non-Profit Partner) Kanwar and Associates (Electrical Engineer, Equity Community Builders Lighting Design, Telecom, Security) (Development Consultant) KPFF (Civil Engineer) San Francisco Housing Authority (Owner) SWA Group (Landscape Architect) APC International Inc. (Construction Manager) P6 Technical Resources Consultants (Specifications) Nibbi Brothers General Contractors Brightworks (LEED Consultant) (Contractor) GLS Landscape Architecture (Landscape Architect) Curtis L. Nichols (Civil Engineer) P9 Paulett Taggart Architects (Architect)

CITIES OF A NEW PORT METROPOLIS CENTRAL AMERICA Rodrigo Bollat Montenegro (Student) Douglas Duany (Project Advisor)

CODE SMTX: TACTICAL URBANISM INTERVENTION & PROJECT KICK-OFF SAN MARCOS, TX City of San Marcos, Planning & Development Services (Planner) Dover, Kohl & Partners (Planner) Town Planning & Urban Design Collaborative (Regulations) HDR - Austin (Transportation) Streets Plan Collaborative (Transportation) McCann & Adams Studio (Planner) P11 P13 P15 P17

PEARL BREWERY REDEVELOPMENT ALDERSHOT 30 YEARS OF SCRIPPS COLLEGE MICRO LOFTS AT THE ARCADE PROVIDENCE MASTER PLAN ALDERSHOT, HAMPSHIRE, CAMPUS STEWARDSHIP PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND SAN ANTONIO, TX ENGLAND UK CLAREMONT, CA Northeast Collaborative Architects (Architect) Lake|Flato Architects (Architect) ADAM Urbanism (Planner) Scripps College (Client) 130 Westminster Street Associates, LLC Artistic Builders (Contractor) Grainger plc (Developer/Client) Moule & Polyzoides, Architects and Urbanists (Developer & General Contractor) Danysh & Associates, Inc. Defence Estate, HM Naval Base (Landowner) (Architect & Campus Planners for Structures Workshop, Inc. (Structural Engineer) (Structural Engineer) Savills (Planning Consultant) Phase 2 and 3) J. Madison, Inc. (Mechanical Engineer) Pape-Dawson Engineers, Inc. (Civil Engineer) R&M Regeneration Management Ltd DeBretteville & Polyzoides (Architect & Ben Jacobson (Photographer) Rialto Studio, Inc. (Landscape Architect) (Project Manager) Campus Planner for Phase 1) Creative Environment Corporation MEP Engineering in conjunction with Terence O’Rourke Ltd (Ecologist) (Project Electrical Engineer) Triple R-Electric, Co. (Electrical Engineer) WSP Development and Transportation Hughes Associates (Code Consultant) Beyer Mechanical (Mechanical and Plumbing) (Highways Consultant) Protection Development, Inc. (Fire Protection) Capita Symonds (Landscape Architect) P16 Project Control (Project Management) Sustainable Perspectives Group (LEED Consultant) P17 P14 P12

PLAN EL PASO EL PASO, TX City of El Paso (Clients/Public Agency) SULLIVAN STATION Dover, Kohl & Partners (Primary Consultant, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS VIRGINIA’S CAPITOL MASTER PLAN Town Planning) The Davis Group, LLC (Owner) RICHMOND, VA Spikowski Planning Associates VOA Associates, Inc. (Architect) TRANSIT ORIENTED DEVELOPMENT Robert Wallace & Todd (Architect) (Urban Planning) Weis Builders, Inc. (General Contractor) REVITALIZATION Carter Goble Associates (Space Programming) Sottile and Sottile (Architects) WYANDANCH, BABYLON, NY HC Yu & Associates (MEP Engineering) The Streets Plan Collaborative (Multimodal Torti Gallas and Partners (Architect) WSP Flack & Kurtz (District Sustainability) Transportation and Coding, Web Outreach) Town of Babylon (Client) Urban Advantage Speck & Associates, Inc. Zimmerman/Volk Associates The Olin Studio CEA Group (Engineering) Sustainable Long Island Chael, Cooper & Associates Barrett, Bonacci & Van Weele, P.C. P18 P19 P20 P21

THE OVAL BEAUFORT COUNTY MULTIJURISDICTIONAL LUHE CITY CENTER LA FOX MASTER PLAN KENNINGTON, LONDON, ENGLAND FORM-BASED CODE/LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE LUHE, JIANGSU PROVINCE, CHINA LAFOX, ILLINOIS ADAM Architecture (Architect) BEAUFORT COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA Thadani Architects + Urbanists (Architect) Graduate Urban Design Studio, School of Surrey County Cricket Club, The Oval (Client) Opticos Design, Inc. (Planning) Bill Dennis (Architect) Architecture, University of Notre Dame Artelia Group (Project Manager) Clarion Associates (Planning) Rick Chellman & Nelson/Nygard Brandon Clear (Project Member) Bennett Construction (Main Contractor) Allison Ramsey Architects (Transportation Engineer) Abigail Courtney (Project Member) Fairhurst GGA (Structural Engineer) (Site Planning and Design) Caroline Swinehart (Project Member) Morley von Sternberg (Photographer) AECOM Technical Services (Transportation Jingwen Zhao (Project Member) Planning and Engineering) Philip Bess (Faculty) Sherwood Design Engineers (Engineering) P20 Urban Advisors (Economic Studies) P18 Brown Design Studio (Architectural Design) P21 P19

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