• Orenco Station

    Completed in 2003, the Orenco Station neighborhood of Hillsboro, Oregon, a suburb of Portland, remains a shining example of neighborhood transformation from suburban sprawl into a pedestrian-friendly, high-density, mixed-use, transit-oriented community. Prior to its redevelopment, the Orenco...Read more

  • Plan 2040

    The beauty of Doña Ana County, with the Organ mountains and the Rio Grande, the fields of chile and orchards of pecans, is stunning. Yet many of those who live and work in this landscape are challenged economically—almost 26 percent of the residents live in poverty, and a quarter of the population...Read more
  • Sweet City Curridabat Pond

    Sweet City: Defeating the City-Nature Antagonism

    Recovering urban nature for a healthier city
    The first city in Costa Rica to adopt form-based coding has created a citywide plan to connect urban neighborhoods to nature. Sweet City is the next phase of a Charter Award-winning plan of 2014. The majority of Curridabat’s 72,500 citizens live among public spaces dominated by asphalt— inhibiting...Read more
  • Columbia Pike Initiative Arlington plaza

    Columbia Pike Initiative

    A Toll Road Goes Mixed-Use, Overcomes Strip Malls
    “It is very easy to photograph a forlorn street and use a computer to calm the traffic, put in some transit, and add lovely buildings and trees,” wrote Jeff Speck, bemoaning the proliferation of unexecuted corridor studies. “So few of these projects have been executed that, for a time, I argued...Read more