• Plant Riverside District

    Plant Riverside District revamped a former industrial site into a dynamic mixed-use waterfront district, woven into the city, extending Savannah’s renowned Oglethorpe plan. The development combines dining, music, retail, education, hospitality and new public spaces without losing the history and...Read more

  • The Wharf

    The Wharf is a superbly designed and impressively implemented mixed-use urban center that re-establishes DC’s connection to the water. Between the mid-1940s through the 1970s, DC’s historic waterfront was largely demolished as part of the federal government’s urban renewal program that displaced...Read more

  • Vision for Panama City

    Panama City, Florida
    Just a year after being clobbered by one of the most powerful Atlantic storms every to land in the US, Panama City, Florida, adopted a vision to rebuild that focuses on economic revival of its long-neglected downtown. The Strategic Vision for Panama City, which won a CNU Charter Award this year,...Read more

  • Somerville Zoning Ordinance

    Somerville, Massachusetts, recently adopted a state-of-the-art form-based code that brings together much of the wisdom that urbanists have acquired over the last 30 years. Remarkably, the code was largely written by in-house city planners, who include skilled urbanists with many years of experience...Read more