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Hunters View
Yesterday a danger zone—today, pure San FranciscoBy any measure, San Francisco ranks among the world’s most beautiful cities. Yet for years, in a sector that tourists never see, 50 barracks-style buildings constructed in 1943 housed 264 families in poverty and fear. Now, a new project is helping the community at Hunters View write a brighter...Read more -
Iberville Offsites
Turning blight into beautyIberville Offsites provides affordable housing for moderate-income families, establishes new standards for green historic preservation, and strengthens a city still climbing back from one of the nation’s worst natural disasters. The development restored vernacular houses in stunning fashion across...Read more -
UCLA Weyburn
Westwood, Los AngelesFor the University of California in Los Angeles, the Weyburn project is more than just graduate student housing. The 500-unit apartment block and community building ties together a fragmented part of the university’s campus, realizing the vision of a thirty-year-old master plan. Built on what was...Read more -
SMTX Tactical Urbanism
Improving downtown for pennies on the dollarFor one day in June 2014, the City of San Marcos worked to re-envision downtown using "Tactical Urbanism." Workers converted two blocks of street from one-way to two-way traffic using temporary paint. An adjacent block was closed to create a farmer's market. Several "pop-up" parks were built in...Read more