• Glenwood Park Atlanta brownstones

    Glenwood Park

    From a Brownfield to a Neighborhood
    The site of a former concrete recycling center two miles east of downtown Atlanta is now a vibrant, mixed-use, traditional neighborhood development (TND). Its design is not only architecturally-intriguing, but also environmentally sustainable. Its persuasive pitch and later economic success led to...Read more
  • Bagby Street Houston tree crate bench

    Bagby Street

    Sustainability and Style Meet on Houston Street
    This street revitalization effort utilized aggressive low impact development (LID) strategies to improve stormwater quality, offset carbon emissions and redefine a previously auto-dominated commuter thoroughfare as a livable center with significant improvements to the pedestrian environment. The...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
  • 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