• Trappey and Bayou Vermilion Waterfront District Vision Plan

    For three decades, the vacant Trappey cannery on the Vermilion River deteriorated, but thanks to community stakeholders, private developers, and the City of Lafayette, this prime site will become a new neighborhood. The old factory buildings will be incorporated into the 22-acre mixed-use community...Read more

  • RiverFront Revitalization

    The RiverFront Revitalization in Omaha, Nebraska, makes a unified, transformative, 70-acre civic-oriented park at the center of a major city in the nation’s heartland. Omaha had three underutilized parks: Gene Leahy Mall, Heartland of America, and Lewis & Clark Landing. Although they were...Read more

  • Casa de Luz

    Casa de Luz is a case study that teaches the value of thinking differently about health, food, parking, and community building. Although the project covers less than an acre, it has an outsized impact on the City of Austin, Texas. “The unlikely story of how a health-oriented restaurant transformed...Read more

  • ReLeaf Cedar Rapids

    Trees are such a ubiquitous part of the urban landscape that their vital role is sometimes overlooked. Nearly every New Urbanist plan makes prominent use of them, and yet the word “tree” does not appear in the Charter of the New Urbanism , observes Jeff Speck, planner and author of Walkable City...Read more