• Arise South Bend fountain

    Arise

    Revitalizing a Post-Industrial City
    Created by the City of South Bend and the firm Torti Gallas and Partners, Arise sets the goal of using limited resources to create a visionary— yet immediately implementable—plan to revitalize 10 struggling neighborhoods on the west side of the shrinking post-industrial city. Currently, two...Read more
  • Plan El Paso El Paso plaza

    Plan El Paso

    Laying the Groundwork for a Healthier City and Region
    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. Now, new developments are focused on people while the city is reoriented toward transit, walking, public places, and...Read more
  • Downtown Rockford

    TLC: An Approach to Activate Downtown Rockford

    A different approach sparks a downtown revival
    After decades of abandonment, downtown Rockford is finally coming back. Rockford, a mid-sized city in north-central Illinois about 90 miles northwest of Chicago, is not unlike many other Midwest cities its size. Its post-war, car-oriented sprawl had riddled its downtown with vacant storefronts,...Read more
  • Scripps College Claremont historic character

    30 Years of Scripps College Campus Stewardship

    Using Design to Strengthen Economic and Social Value in an Institution
    Scripps College was first designed in 1927—a jewel of a California Mission– style institution in a small-town setting. Then the middle of the 20th Century delivered punishing blows through “thirty years of abandonment, thoughtless and contrary design that undermined the essential qualities and...Read more