• Curridabat Master Plan Curridabat suburban retrofit

    Curridabat Master Plan

    A Costa Rican City Adopts New Urbanism
    Developing countries are experiencing urbanization at a much faster rate than cities in North America, and funds for planning efforts are generally scarce. On the outskirts of the Costa Rican capital San José, however, in a town called Curridabat, Mayor Édgar Mora Altamirano and the local...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
  • Sulphur Dell Nashville fireworks

    Sulphur Dell

    Revitalizing a Blighted Void Near Downtown
    Just north of downtown Nashville, a 90- acre void of parking and low-rise industrial buildings separates the city’s central business district from the revitalizing Germantown neighborhood. The area is both a barrier to economic development and an opportunity. The Nashville Sounds baseball stadium...Read more
  • Luhe City Center Luhe proposed park

    Luhe City Center

    A Model for More Sustainable Growth in China
    No place on Earth is urbanizing more rapidly than China. In Luhe, one of the country’s new urban expansion areas, Nanjing Urban Planning Bureau proposed to expand the city by developing a 60-mile corridor for 4.5 million people. The plan would have consumed vital land along Luhe’s stretch of the...Read more