• Context-based redesign solves street problems

    A pedestrian fatality spurred a transformation of a thoroughfare in Raleigh, linking a college campus to neighborhoods.
    Note: This case study was written for the Institute for Transportation Engineers new book Implementing Context Sensitive Design on Multimodal Corridors , funded by the Federal Highway Administration. A wide suburban arterial road separating the campus of North Carolina State University from city...Read more

  • Responding to character of context

    New deco mixed-use building in Pasadena broke a community log jam with distinctive and lovable design that responds to its surroundings.
    In Pasadena, California, the Playhouse Plaza has replaced a single-story furniture store with “an architectural triumph that has added to Pasadena’s legacy of well-designed, beautiful buildings,” says Susan Mossman, Executive Director of Pasadena Heritage. Located in the city’s revitalizing 32-...Read more

  • Affordability with flair near downtown

    In an area that once suffered in-city freeway blight, this mixed-use housing project creates a beautiful urban streetwall with modern sensibility.
    In the middle of the last century, a new network of elevated highways slashed through San Francisco’s delicate historic neighborhoods. The most harmful of those was the Embarcadero Freeway along the city’s northern waterfront. After the Loma Prieta earthquake, the Embarcadero was demolished—...Read more

  • Bigger is not better for main street

    Roundabouts and reductions in lane widths helped to restore civic life along a US highway in a western New York village.
    Note: This case study was written for the Institute for Transportation Engineers new book Implementing Context Sensitive Design on Multimodal Corridors , funded by the Federal Highway Administration. US Route 62, connecting Niagara Falls with El Paso, traverses a 2,200-mile cross-section of America...Read more