• Shanghai Old Town

    China is rapidly losing its historic, human-scale urban fabric. Demolition of historic areas is common, and new development is typically done in block-size increments, sliced apart by wide arterial roads. Old Town is where Shanghai began as a fishing village in the 13th Century, and it retains some...Read more

  • Rockville Town Square

    In the early 2000’s, the City and Federal Realty Investment Trust decided to remove the shopping mall that dominated the center of Rockville, MD. The mall was built in the 1970’s, when the common practice in urban design was to create a place convenient to drive to, but it has since become obsolete...Read more

  • Pleasant Hill TOD

    In 1985, fourteen project owners formed the Contra Costa Centre Transit Village around the Pleasant Hill BART Station in Walnut Creek, California. This became a transportation-oriented development (TOD), meant to provide unique connections between retail and residential property and public...Read more

  • Park DuValle

    Most of Park DuValle was designed after World War II, but some of is earliest developments date back to the 19 th Century. For much of its history, Park DuValle has been a poor and segregated section of Louisville, and by the mid-1990’s the neighborhood consisted of 1,100 underfunded and unkempt...Read more