Hope 6 projects are planned to replace towers

Hope 6 projects are planned to replace public housing towers with neighborhoods by using principles of the New Urbanism in many cities around the nation. A few projects are built or under construction, and the early results are promising (see photo). In an interview in the August, 1997, issue of Architecture, U.S. Department of Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Andrew Cuomo offered a strong endorsement of the New Urbanism. “We stress the new urbanist principles because we have seen that they work,” he says. “Developments that use these principles are planned with the human element in mind.” In the January/February, 1998, issue of New Urban News, the Hope 6 program will be featured. Two projects, the Horner Neighborhood in Chicago and Pleasant View Gardens (formerly Lafayette Courts) in Baltimore, will be profiled. Pleasant View Gardens, designed by CHK Associates, is complete and occupied, and the Horner Neighborhood has significant portions built. Calthorpe & Associates planned Horner.