The pocket neighborhood is a new real estate product for middle America substituting shared neighborhood greens for front yards and car parking in garages at the front of the house.
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A Rural Timberlands Neighborhood proposed for southwest Arkansas employs resilient design to mitigate social and ecosystem disturbance regimes (housing deficiencies, wildfire, and erosion) structuring its context.
Double-front is an infill housing prototype that begins with a stacked duplex to create a range of missing middle housing configurations for small downtowns like Fayetteville, Arkansas (population: 85,000).
Sudbury’s industrial-era infrastructure—its rails, roads, and historic downtown are the basis for building 21st century low-carbon neighborhoods featuring new urban landscapes.
The lamination of a slow street with a highway stretches the civic landscapes and pedestrian spaces common to a town square along Mayflower's 4,500-foot length.
This disaster recovery plan responds to the community's desire for small town urbanism, local commerce, and community saferooms after a tornado destroyed much of the town in 2014.
This plan for a legacy downtown neighborhood recovers the full spectrum of land uses to meet the daily needs of its residents at all income levels with varying mobility needs.
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The proposal reflects the green development philosophy outlined in The Rwanda National Strategy on Climate Change and Low Carbon Development.
A pocket neighborhood is an identifiable cluster of houses around shared outdoor commons and infrastructure.
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.
Planning leverages urban and ecological services in the porch, yard, street, and open space. Neighborhoods are developed as sub-watersheds.
Like waterfronts and transit stops, parks leverage value in urban areas. The park is envisioned as the anchor for a larger urban landscape network.
The Habitat for Humanity neighborhood is designed as a sponge to work in accord with existing hydrological drainage, catchment, and recharge patterns.
The housing master plan shifts age related planning processes from traditional institutional settings toward a more community-based solution.