• UConn Downtown Hartford

    A campus opens up to the city
    Four decades after moving its campus to suburban West Hartford, the University of Connecticut moved back to downtown Hartford— bringing mixed-use development and the revitalization of the Hartford Times Building, a neoclassical landmark. Because the suburban campus had been difficult for city-based...Read more

  • Biscayne Green

    Reclaiming space for people
    A long-term plan to convert a series of parking lots to public spaces in the middle of Biscayne Boulevard was held up for years due to concerns about traffic and parking. The creative use of Tactical Urbanism is breaking the political deadlock for this important downtown Miami thoroughfare—starting...Read more

  • Argyle Shared Street

    Shared street connects culture and community
    Chicago is showing how change in public infrastructure can transform a neighborhood with drug and gang problems. Located in the ethnically Asian Uptown neighborhood, Argyle Shared Street is a shared-use, pedestrian-prioritizing streetscape. “This project creates an area that is more walkable, more...Read more

  • Crosstown Concourse

    The toughest transformation
    For two decades, the 1.3-million-square-foot former Sears distribution center sat empty in the midst of disinvested Memphis neighborhoods—a symbol of urban blight. The building was too big to redevelop and too expensive to demolish, many thought. Now Crosstown Concourse represents the best kind of...Read more