• Dunbar High School DC entrance

    Dunbar High School

    Historic High School Opens Up to the Community
    Paul Laurence Dunbar High School in Washington, D.C. has the distinction of being America’s first public high school for African-Americans. Intent on harkening back to a beloved building from 1917 – and replacing dim, bunker-like facilities built in 1977 – Perkins Eastman melded traditional and...Read more
  • 30th Street Station Philadelphia elevated train

    Getting to It and Getting Through It

    Rehabilitation of Philadelphia’s 30th Street Station
    Students at the University of Maryland were tasked with reimagining the west bank of the Schuylkill River in Philadelphia as a vibrant, mixed-use neighborhood, repairing the urban fabric in the process. Amtrak’s main corridor through Philadelphia runs north-south just across the river from the area...Read more
  • Station Center Union City artwork

    Station Center

    Affordable Housing Hits on All Marks
    Union City is one of the farthest-flung BART stops in the San Francisco Bay Area, and one of the least developed. As part of a regional effort to focus transit-oriented development around transit stations, the city developed an ambitious plan to build a research development campus, market-rate...Read more
  • CincinnatiFBC Cincinnati neighborhood framework

    Cincinnati Citywide Form-based Code

    A Landmark in Form-Based Coding
    Codes don’t happen in a void. Cincinnati Vice Mayor Roxanne Qualls and Planning Director Charles Graves put their weight behind the creation of a form-based code to inspire the revitalization of their urban neighborhoods. A Community Challenge Planning Grant from The Department of Housing and Urban...Read more