• Community led plan for bottom-up revitalization

    WeCollab is a community led initiative to revitalize adjacent neighborhoods in St. Louis, Missouri. YARD & Company won a Merit Award in the Neighborhood, District, and Corridor category of the CNU 2023 Charter Awards.
    It is now standard practice to conduct extensive public outreach in neighborhood planning. WeCollab in the St. Louis neighborhoods of West End and Visitation Park took this idea further—citizens became part of the consulting team to rebuild their own community. This effort lays the groundwork to...Read more

  • Reviving the downtown of a hard luck city

    Florida’s first predominantly African-American suburb has been out of the economic mainstream for six decades. A downtown plan that focuses on New Urbanism, affordable housing, and minority business development maps out a better future.
    Founded in the 1920s by aviation pioneer Glenn Curtis, Opa-locka, Florida, had an imaginative beginning, with architecture based on the Arabian Nights. The city six miles north of Miami reportedly has the largest collection of Moorish building design in the Western Hemisphere. The City Hall, with...Read more

  • Building the Beloved Community in Atlanta

    In Martin Luther King Jr.’s home of Westside Atlanta, a nonprofit is partnering with the City and public and private organizations to transform disadvantaged neighborhoods using a new urban design plan.
    “Physical solutions by themselves will not solve social and economic problems, but neither can economic vitality, community stability, and environmental health be sustained without a coherent and supportive physical framework.” From the Charter of the New Urbanism​ Five years has passed since a...Read more

  • Housing ideas for people ‘on the spectrum’

    A report examines the living needs of the millions of people with autism spectrum disorder, and how good building and neighborhood design can help.
    One in 54 children are diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), ranging from those with severe developmental disabilities to higher-functioning individuals who used to be (and still are, in some countries) classified with Asperger’s syndrome. The Providence-based architecture and planning...Read more