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University of Texas – Pan American Campus Master Plan
Connecting Town and Gown to Build Prosperity and HealthThis master plan, designed for the University of Texas-Pan American, is far more ambitious than the typical campus plan. It creates a framework to build community prosperity, educate global citizens, and promote healthy living in the Rio Grande Valley, all while increasing student enrollment and...Read more -
Arise
Revitalizing a Post-Industrial CityCreated 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 -
TLC: An Approach to Activate Downtown Rockford
A different approach sparks a downtown revivalAfter 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 -
30 Years of Scripps College Campus Stewardship
Using Design to Strengthen Economic and Social Value in an InstitutionScripps 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