A suburban five-lane commercial arterial is transformed into a multiway boulevard including public art and edible landscaping.
The revitalization plan begins with selective aggregations of affordable housing ($100K units) around two neighborhood parks: one existing and one proposed.
This habitat restoration and education garden for the Paul Nolan Wastewater Treatment Plant and adjacent prairie restores ecological and recreational functions.
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Planning leverages urban and ecological services in the porch, yard, street, and open space. Neighborhoods are developed as sub-watersheds.
This proposal for a South Beach Museum design competition celebrates beachheading in multiple ways: politically, ecologically, urbanistically, and socially.
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Like waterfronts and transit stops, parks leverage value in urban areas. The park is envisioned as the anchor for a larger urban landscape network.
This study is a rediscovery of place-making fabrics throughout Arkansas enjoyed intuitively by most people rather than interpreted syntactically.
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A newly formed nonprofit arts education group wants to convert a former food production facility into new studio and performance space.
The planning goal is to reduce the deleterious effects of urban stormwater runoff from hard surfaces using Low Impact Development technologies.
The Habitat for Humanity neighborhood is designed as a sponge to work in accord with existing hydrological drainage, catchment, and recharge patterns.
Three holistic solutions remediate a 2,000-foot urban stream corridor running through the Fayetteville campus of the University of Arkansas.
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This regional rail study is the first step in helping Northwest Arkansas envision smart growth development opportunities through context-responsive transportation planning.
The planning goal is to reduce the deleterious effects of urban stormwater runoff from hard surfaces using Low Impact Development technologies.
The project addresses the departure of artists from Fayetteville with below market-rate housing for those who could not otherwise afford to live in the downtown.
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This porch study explores a taxonomy of house porches, which for the most part lack an architectural pedigree.
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Identifiable arboreal spatial arrangements like allées, bosques, hammocks, and groves form outdoor rooms to create a living educational center at Little Rock's Two Rivers Park.
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The housing master plan shifts age related planning processes from traditional institutional settings toward a more community-based solution.
This investigation designs the interface between the public realm and the algorithms by which the discount retail industry has become a dominant economic force.
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Without land-use zoning, the challenge is to devise alternative plans and form-based codes for a town without the capacity to progressively shape its growth.
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This quick design study was conducted to determine viability of converting an abandoned food-processing facility into a municipal building.