5280 Trail A Green NecklaceBrings The City Together The Downtown Denver Partnership has been the leading visionaries for central Denver for 45 years. In their ongoing effort to keep Downtown connected, active and growing, they came up with the idea of ringing the...
Imperial Beach Pier Merging Function and Art to Enhance an Ocean Icon Due south of San Diego Bay, California’s southernmost pier in the United States’ most southwesterly city extends 1,500’ into the Pacific Ocean at Imperial Beach. Originally built in 1963, the pier...
Wayzata’s 9/11 Memorial Personal Reflections Within Public Spaces The Aamoth family, with deep Wayzata roots, had lost their then-32-year-old son, Gordy Aamoth Jr., in the September 11th attacks on the World Trade Center. The family was motivated not only to honor...
Central Platte Valley Restoring a River to Engage People in a New Urban Ecology Civitas has prepared roughly 30 projects in Denver’s Central Platte Valley over a 32 year period. This area was rail yards, an inter-modal facility and warehouses when Civitas was founded...
St. Patrick's Island Acting with a Light Touch Downtown Calgary sits astride one of North America’s scenic rivers – The Bow, which reaches from Banff in the Rockies all the way to the Saskatchewan River and Hudson’s Bay. The 30 acre island has been the site of...
North Embarcadero A Working Waterfrontthat Welcomes People The first phase design for San Diego’s waterfront improves the framework of an existing master plan that proposes unique park spaces along this one-mile long edge, called the North Embarcadero. A water quality...