Charter Awards focus on Katrina recovery, infill

The 2007 Charter Award winners, listed in the table below and to be presented at CNU in Philadelphia in May, include four designs promoting Gulf-Coast recovery. They include:
• Two projects that advance the promise of modest Katrina Cottages in hurricane-damaged cities — one a prototype for manufactured cottages, the other a model village in Ocean Springs, Mississippi.
• A pattern book showing the housing industry in southern Louisiana how to honor traditions in building design and neighborhood form.
• A master plan for Long Beach, Mississippi.
Other awardees repair urban contexts, provide affordable housing, and promote sustainable growth and development. They include:
• Wrapping townhouses along the edge of a superblock in Arlington, Virginia, and bringing life to an arterial street.
• A master plan to coordinate redevelopment of the waterfront of Camden, New Jersey (see image on page 1).
• Two projects that renew deteriorated public housing.
• A grouping of Habitat homes built at $55 per square foot in a contemporary version of Arkansas farmhouses.
• A former RV park in Napa Valley, California, transformed into a dense and diverse settlement.
Jurors also recognized one of the first neighborhood-scale new urban developments, Harbor Town in Memphis.