• Hunters View San Francisco skyline in background

    Hunters View

    Yesterday a Danger Zone — Today, Pure San Francisco
    By any measure, San Francisco ranks among the world’s most beautiful cities. Yet for years, in a sector that tourists never see, 50 barracks-style buildings constructed in 1943 housed 264 families in poverty and fear. Now, a new project is helping the community at Hunters View write a brighter...Read more
  • Tactical Urbanism San Marcos plantings

    Code SMTX: Tactical Urbanism Intervention and Project Kickoff

    Improving Downtown — for Pennies on the Dollar
    Code SMTX in San Marcos, Texas may carry the distinction of all-time least expensive winner. The return on investment for the city and for community members has been significant. For one day in June 2014, the City of San Marcos and Dover, Kohl & Partners worked to re-envision downtown using so-...Read more
  • New Port Metropolis Guatemala aerial

    Cities of a New Port Metropolis

    How ports could be cities again
    Until now, all major initiatives to create a port on the Atlantic Coast of Central America have failed to produce human-scale places due to the vast surface area required by modern hub-container facilities. Our Grand Prize student winner is a counter-proposal based on the simple idea: Ports should...Read more
  • Lowell Canals Lowell redevelopment

    Master Plan for Revitalization of the Canal System

    Canals as Vital Arteries for a Fabled Mill District
    The famous historic mill buildings of Lowell, Massachusetts have formed the basis for the city’s resurgence—but these assets are sometimes difficult to find among the city’s grid, and public spaces are lacking. In the Master Plan for Revitalization of the Canal System, three students propose using...Read more