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.
A former scrap metal yard located four blocks north of Conway’s main commercial street was re-imagined as a new square surrounded by a mixed-use residential district.
The Maple Street Retrofit is articulated through a sequence of spaces including a grand urban room at the campus gates anchoring a landscaped cycle track and pedestrian walk.
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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.
The proposed School Avenue streetscape frames new development between the Walton Arts Center and the Fayetteville Public Library with arts-based civic infrastructure.
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Beyond simple infill development, housing serves as a place-making tool to anchor a nascent downtown arts district for Fayetteville, Arkansas.
The Creative Corridor retrofits a four-block segment of an endangered historic downtown Main Street through development catalyzed by the cultural arts rather than Main Street’s traditional retail base.
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What if 80% of future growth occurred around a new streetcar system along Fayetteville’s main commercial arterial, presently dominated by sprawl and the automobile?
Flyover gardens are a new hybrid that integrates highway infrastructure and landscape while restoring the urban surface for pedestrian market activity.
A suburban five-lane commercial arterial is transformed into a multiway boulevard including public art and edible landscaping.
Like waterfronts and transit stops, parks leverage value in urban areas. The park is envisioned as the anchor for a larger urban landscape network.
Highway Ecologies is a participatory planning model to achieve context-sensitive highway design.