town center

Walthamstow Town Centre Master Plan

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Master plan for suburban town centre produced by The Prince's Foundation with Seth Harry Associates, Space Syntax, ABA and CNT.

Mixon Avenue Perspective Plan I

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The projects urban form is a dense, mixed-use, walkable neighborhood built in an area designed by leaders in the Garden City and City Beautiful movements. Narrow streets, courtyards, pocket gardens, and plazas comprise an improved public realm.

Mixon Avenue Perspective Plan II

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The projects urban form is a dense, mixed-use, walkable neighborhood built in an area designed by leaders in the Garden City and City Beautiful movements. Narrow streets, courtyards, pocket gardens, and plazas comprise an improved public realm.

Mixon Avenue Perspective Plan

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The projects urban form is a dense, mixed-use, walkable neighborhood built in an area designed by leaders in the Garden City and City Beautiful movements. Narrow streets, courtyards, pocket gardens, and plazas comprise an improved public realm.

Rockville Town Square II

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This project transformed 12.5 acres of aging strip retail into a vibrant mixed-use setting and community focal point. The new town center now has a WiGi-enabled urban park, national and locally based shops and restaurants, a new county library, a cultural art center and 644 condos and apartments.

Rockville Town Square

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This project transformed 12.5 acres of aging strip retail into a vibrant mixed-use setting and community focal point. The new town center now has a WiGi-enabled urban park, national and locally based shops and restaurants, a new county library, a cultural art center and 644 condos and apartments.

Rockville Town Square Site Plan

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This project transformed 12.5 acres of aging strip retail into a vibrant mixed-use setting and community focal point. The new town center now has a WiFi-enabled urban park, national and locally based shops and restaurants, a new county library, a cultural art center and 644 condos and apartments.

Rockville Town Square Context Map

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This project transformed 12.5 acres of aging strip retail into a vibrant mixed-use setting and community focal point. The new town center now has a WiFi-enabled urban park, national and locally based shops and restaurants, a new county library, a cultural art center and 644 condos and apartments.

Southside

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Western Approach to Bayshore Town Center

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The internal streets at Bayshore Town Center frame a town square and are lined with shops and restaurants, but the project presents a gaping parking decks, several surface lots, and only a few leftover storefronts to the major streets lining its perimeter. The project illustrates a point that urban designer Seth Harry often makes: that typical town center retailers like the Gap or Williams-Sonoma have business models that depend on drawing customers from throughout the region. As a result, in most cases the parking and infrastructure needs of these regional retailers begin to dominate the urban environment that's created, costing the development a fully satisfying sense of place.