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A HOPE VI redevelopment that replaces superblocks with a traditional street grid, creates graceful public spaces, and introduces a broad mix of housing types. Distinguished by its high architectural standards, this redevelopment creates a coherent physical framework to support the reemergence of a diverse urban neighborhood. City West is on the sites of the former Lincoln Court and Laurel Homes public housing projects. It is within walking distance of downtown Cincinnati. Its east-west artery links two prized institutions: Museum Center (at Union Terminal) and Music Hall.
CIty West Hope VI Site Plan
Cincinnati, OH
connected street network, Hope VI, mixed-income housing, mixed-income neighborhood, public housing, superblocks
 Attractive housing on new compact city blocks has proved popular for both public-housing residents and market-rate customers at Oak Hill in Pittsburg, built on the reconfigured site of a semi-abandoned and isolated public housing development.
Oak Hill Mixed-Income Housing
Pittsburgh, PA
connected street network, Hope VI, mixed-income housing, mixed-income neighborhood, public housing, superblocks
 Poorly connected superblocks and a forbidding hilltop location added to the isolation of the low-income residents of the previous public housing development occupying the site. Oak Hill Hope Vi project undertook extensive efforts to re-establish a connected street network as part of the strategy to create a mixed-income neighborhood integrated into the fabric of Pittsburgh.
Oak Hill Hope VI Site Plan
Pittsburgh, PA
connected street network, Hope VI, mixed-income housing, mixed-income neighborhood, public housing, superblocks
 In creating a catalytic mixed-use development in the Old Cloverdale neighborhood of Montgomery, the developer paid careful attention to the scale of the mixed use component in relation to the neighborhood homes.
Cottages meet Storefronts at Atlantic & Pacific Development
Montgomery, AL
cottages, Infill Development, mixed-use development, Revitalization, small city, storefronts, transit access
The commercial center of Old Cloverdale in Montgomery had suffered from decades of neglect as suburban sprawl pulled retail and residential away, before the Atlantic & Pacific Development revitalized a square block.
Surface Lots Before Construction of Atlantic & Pacific Development
Montgomery, AL
apartments above stores, Infill Development, mixed-use development, Revitalization, small city, storefronts, transit access
 For the corridor with Boston's worst access to transit service and most underused commuter rail line, the plan calls for an enhanced rail service with new stations that will allow for higher-density affordable housing, better access to jobs, and for a greenway linking parks and recreational destinations.
Boston Fairmount Corridor Station Area Plans
BOston, MA
commuter rail, mixed-income development, rail transit, Redevelopment, Revitalization, station area plans, tranist-oriented development
 A collaborative planning team formed by four community development corporations created a vision for new, urban villages on vacant, underutilized and brownfield sites along Boston’s most underused commuter rail line -- a 10-mile transportation corridor stretching from downtown to the suburbs. The neighborhoods affected by the plan have some of the city’s highest poverty levels, the greatest dependence on public transportation, and the worst access to transit service. The plan calls for an enhanced rail line with new stations that will allow for higher-density affordable housing, better access to jobs, and for a greenway linking parks and recreational destinations.
Boston Fairmount Corridor Vision
Boston, MA
commuter rail, rail transit, Redevelopment, regional planning, Revitalization, station area plans, Transit-Oriented Development
 Targeted for a coordinated transit-oriented revitalization, the neighborhoods along Boston's Fairmount commuter-rail line have some of the city’s highest poverty levels, the greatest dependence on public transportation, and the worst access to transit service. The plan calls for an enhanced rail line with new stations that will allow for higher-density affordable housing, better access to jobs, and for a greenway linking parks and recreational destinations.
Boston Fairmount Corridor Challenge
Boston, MA
commuter rail, rail transit, Redevelopment, Revitalization, station area plans, Transit-Oriented Development
Where before there was a mall and vast parking lots, mixed-use buildings now frame a graceful civic square at the heart of Belmar.
Civic Square at Belmar
Lakewood, CO United States
greyfield malls, greyfield to goldfields, malls to mainstreets, mixed-use town center
 Before its conversion into the Charter-Award-winning mixed-use neighborhood, Belmar was Villa Italia, the largest mall west of the Mississippi River at the time of its construction in the 1960s.
Belmar Site Conditions — Villa Italia Mall
Lakewood, CO
dead malls, greyfield mall conversion, malls to mainstreets, mixed-use neighborhood, mixed-use town center
 Like other regional plans from Calthorpe Associates, this one gives constituents choices between starkly contrasting growth scenarios. This image shows how the scenario analysis calculates the interconnected impact of various natural systems restoration and protection strategies, land-development patterns and transportation systems on outcomes such as traffic congestion, auto emissions, housing mix and annual household expenses.
Louisiana Speaks Regional Plan Scenario Inputs
Southern Louisiana
automobile emissions, Calthorpe Associates, household expenses, regional planning, scenario analysis, wetlands restoration
 Like other regional plans from Calthorpe Associates, this one shows constituents the starkly contrasting outcomes that will result from the region either allowing development to follow a status-quo automobile-dependent pattern or making changes that put an emphasis on multi-modal transportation and compact, walkable growth that links housing and job centers. Although the scenarios offer clear and straightforward choices, they are based on a highly detailed GIS-based analysis of the interaction of growth, transportation systems and landscape — and the resulting impacts on Louisiana's highly sensitive natural systems.
Louisiana Speaks Regional Plan Growth Scenarios
Southern Louisiana
compact growth, jobs-housing balance, regional plans, scenario analysis, sprawl growth, transit-based planning