• Town Center Master Plan

    Troy, a prosperous northern Detroit “Edge City” retained Gibbs Planning Group in 2017 to plan a traditional downtown on their 125-acre civic campus. Although the city includes two regional malls, major corporations and over 85,000 residents, it lacks a walkable city center. A year-long community...Read more

  • Kingston Forward

    New land-use codes may transform communities but are notoriously difficult to communicate. They involve abstract concepts that nevertheless impact local health, economy, sustainability, and the built form over decades—in ways that are not always obvious to citizens or political representatives...Read more

  • Just Imagine SWLA

    Southwest Louisiana, comprising Calcasieu and Cameron parishes, is larger than Rhode Island or Delaware. The region is extremely low and vulnerable to sea-level rise and storm surge. The largest city, Lake Charles, is 30 miles inland and only 15 feet above sea level. Four federally designated...Read more

  • ReLeaf Cedar Rapids

    Trees are such a ubiquitous part of the urban landscape that their vital role is sometimes overlooked. Nearly every New Urbanist plan makes prominent use of them, and yet the word “tree” does not appear in the Charter of the New Urbanism , observes Jeff Speck, planner and author of Walkable City...Read more