• Hammond Downtown Master Plan

    Based on the past sixty years, one would expect Hammond, Indiana, to continue shrinking and its downtown to stagnate indefinitely. But the suburb of Chicago has other factors in its favor, according to Jeff Speck, who led the design team for a recent Downtown Master Plan. A commuter rail station is...Read more
  • Beach Town, Las Catalinas

    The 21-acre Beach Town in Las Catalinas, Costa Rica, combines the intricate urbanism of a European hill town with the architecture of Latin America and the development programming and process of a US new urbanist neighborhood. The first neighborhood to be built in Las Catalinas, Beach Town is a...Read more
  • El Punto Neighborhood Revitalization

    A community-driven initiative has revitalized a disadvantaged neighborhood in Salem, Massachusetts, through public art, affordable housing, historic rehabilitation, and wide-ranging community projects. The transformation of The Point, a 50-acre immigrant neighborhood with a large Dominican...Read more
  • Project 180

    Oklahoma City reversed a half century of automobile-centric street planning in a comprehensive makeover of its downtown public realm in the last decade. A public-private partnership, Project 180, redesigned every downtown street. In Jeff Speck’s plan for the 50-block downtown core, the one-way...Read more