downtown

Location: Saucier, MSNarrative & program: With funding from a regional planning and development district, the local county zoning office obtained the services of the design team to prepare a town plan and SmartCode overlay district for Saucier, Mississippi, a small rural unincorporated com... read more »

Location: Redwood City, CANarrative & program: As in many once thriving small and medium-sized American cities, Redwood City, California suffered serious losses in the last 50 years as sprawl in the Silicon Valley has pulled activity away from downtown. Once the largest city between San F... read more »

Location: Columbia, SCNarrative & program: The submission is a proposed new mixed-use, live/work urban district located in the downtown area of Columbia, South Carolina, the state capital. The 500-acre site lies between a wide river on the west and a downtown University campus, the State ... read more »

Location: Memphis, TNNarrative & program: Contrary to most development occurring in Memphis in the late 1980s, a Memphis developer wanted to create a vibrant new neighborhood close to downtown that would encourage intermingling and mimic his childhood neighborhood that contained a diverse ... read more »

Location: Long Beach, MSNarrative & program: Long Beach, Mississippi is a bedroom community of about 17,300 residents on the Gulf Coast. After Hurricane Katrina ravaged the area, the community has responded by wanting to reinstate the town's attractive nature and rapid growth that was occ... read more »

Location: Providence, RI, USANarrative & program: This city-scale plan encompasses an area nearly four miles long and one mile wide, and seeks to expand the downtown’s position in the region by increasing its development capacity for urbane living and working. The plan reposition the 150... read more »