A 75-year old informal community on the Buenos Aires waterfront is the city’s most celebrated barrio. Imagine an unprecedented process that transfers land title to those who built their homes by hand; a new place-specific building code and building retrofits to establish public safety and the reimagination of a freeway fly-over into a new civic…

How do 18 different federal and local agencies come together to foster a new development framework for a polluted river in the nation’s capital? Through hard work, leadership, scores and scores of partnerships and smart planning ideas which help to foster mixed-use, mixed-income waterfront neighborhoods.

From idea…to concept…to design principles…to iconic design and now…to construction of the District of Columbia’s largest infrastructure project ever implemented; Uwe Brandes has been shaping the future of the South Capitol Street crossing for 20 years. This new urban corridor and bridge is the gateway connecting the “President’s Highway” from Andrew’s Air Force base to…

How does a windswept parking lot with a soaring elevated highway recapture its former glory as the terminus of the Erie Canal? Through stakeholder engagement, historical research, urban development scenarios and detailed site design. And more stakeholder engagement. And then even more. And then, over a period of a few years, imaginations are stirred, cultural…

The legacy of urban renewal leaves a city’s historic commercial harbor in a state of abandonment. A participatory planning process results in a new vision for a mixed-use and mixed-income neighborhood that also serves as a social cross-roads bringing city residents, regional visitors and out-of-town tourists together in a pedestrian-first waterfront destination.