• Visions Lafayette Lafayette architecturally intriguing facades

    Visions for Lafayette

    Ideas for a Healthy Community and Medical Complex
    Among all types of development, new hospital districts are, ironically, among the least walkable places in America—despite the positive health affects of walking. University of Notre Dame Urban Design students from the class of 2013 provided a vision for building an urban neighborhood around a...Read more
  • LaFox Plan LaFox aerial

    Master Plan for the Town of LaFox, Illinois

    A New Agrarian Town, Connected to the City
    The vast majority of the United States’ metropolitan edge is currently built in low-density, disconnected sprawl. Now, in LaFox, Illinois, students are envisioning a new low-rise agrarian railroad town—with greater density than Chicago—surrounding an existing station. By taking advantage of an...Read more
  • Africa Drawn Cape Town overview

    Africa Drawn: One Hundred Cities

    African urbanism made visible
    “Africa is certainly not only a continent of small villages in the jungle and savannah. Its level of diverse urbanization and global network of mobility is advancing rapidly, while African metropolitan regions, cities, and towns are among the fastest growing in the world,” note the authors of...Read more

  • South Main

    An inspiring town extension
    Outside Buena Vista, Colorado, on the site of a former garbage dump, forty acres of riverfront land sat vacant for years. It took two nature-loving developers—risk-takers with a background as competitive kayakers—to see what it could become. Following a public design charrette run by Dover, Kohl...Read more