2015 Charter Awards
These are the 2015 Charter Award-winning projects
Visions for Lafayette
Lafayette, Louisiana
Among all types of development, new hospital districts are, ironically, among the least walkable places in America—despite the positive health affects of walking.
Master Plan for the Town of LaFox, Illinois
LaFox, Illinois
The vast majority of the United States’ metropolitan edge is currently built in low-density, disconnected sprawl.
Micro Lofts at the Arcade Providence #thisisCNU
Providence, Rhode Island
One of the nation’s most beautiful historic shopping arcades was restored as 48 affordable micro-lofts, rents starting at $550 per month, and 17 small retail spaces in Providence, Rhode Island.
Hunters View #thisisCNU
San Francisco, California
By any measure, San Francisco ranks among the world’s most beautiful cities. Yet for years, in a sector that tourists never see, 50 barracks-style buildings constructed in 1943 housed 264 families in poverty and fear.
Iberville Offsites #thisisCNU
New Orleans, Louisiana
Iberville Offsites provides affordable housing for moderate-income families, establishes new standards for green historic preservation, and strengthens a city still climbing back from one of the nation’s worst natural disasters.
UCLA Weyburn #thisisCNU
Los Angeles, California
For the University of California in Los Angeles, the Weyburn project is more than just graduate student housing.
SMTX Tactical Urbanism #thisisCNU
San Marcos, Texas
For one day in June 2014, the City of San Marcos worked to re-envision downtown using "Tactical Urbanism." Workers converted two blocks of street from one-way to two-way traffic using temporary paint.
Plan El Paso #thisisCNU
El Paso, Texas
The City of El Paso grew up around rail and the streetcar but, like most American cities, it was remade for the automobile and sprawled far into the countryside in the 20th Century.
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