• Pleasant Hill TOD

    In 1985, fourteen project owners formed the Contra Costa Centre Transit Village around the Pleasant Hill BART Station in Walnut Creek, California. This became a transportation-oriented development (TOD), meant to provide unique connections between retail and residential property and public...Read more

  • Park DuValle

    Most of Park DuValle was designed after World War II, but some of is earliest developments date back to the 19 th Century. For much of its history, Park DuValle has been a poor and segregated section of Louisville, and by the mid-1990’s the neighborhood consisted of 1,100 underfunded and unkempt...Read more

  • Harbor Town

    In the early 1980’s, the city of Memphis made plans to extend I-240’s northern section and create an Inner Loop around the city, and doing so would have required building onto the small peninsula called Mud Island. Mud Island is separated from downtown Memphis by Wolf River Harbor, and at the time...Read more
  • Framework for Empowerment Buenos Aires ground level

    A Framework for Empowerment

    Design enables social transformation
    This plan proposes the revitalization of Villa 31, an 80-year-old squatter-built shantytown in Buenos Aires, for its long-time residents—using bottom-up and top-down implementation concepts. A Framework for Empowerment builds on the local, low-tech recycling industry—13.6 percent of adults in Villa...Read more