• Currie Calgary aerial

    Currie

    From Cowtown to World-Class Urbanism
    Nicknamed “Cowtown,” the city of Calgary historically served as the center of Canada’s cattle and meatpacking industries. In recent decades, a booming oil industry and the nation’s fastest-growing economy have swelled Calgary’s increasingly diverse population to more than a million people—demanding...Read more
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    Nanhu New Country Village

    Breaking the Mold of Chinese Development
    All over China, scarce farmland is being developed as rural families flee their farms for better-paying jobs in cities. The farms that remain are inefficient and fragmented. Nanhu New Country Village breaks the mold by retaining the connection to farmland and nature, restoring a polluted water...Read more

  • South Main

    An inspiring town extension
    Outside Buena Vista, Colorado, on the site of a former garbage dump, forty acres of riverfront land sat vacant for years. It took two nature-loving developers—risk-takers with a background as competitive kayakers—to see what it could become. Following a public design charrette run by Dover, Kohl...Read more

  • Village of Providence

    Expanding options for a car-oriented suburban area
    Since the 1940s, Huntsville has grown to a city of more than 180,000 people from a sleepy rural town. Due to prevailing development patterns during the city’s growth spurt, most residents have little choice but to drive. The Village of Providence has converted a five-lane arterial thoroughfare in...Read more