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...
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...
Commons Park Centerpiece of a Vibrant New Neighborhood Denver began where the Cherokee Trail met the South Platte River and Cherry Creek. This site had been a gathering and exchange place for native Utes and Arapaho tribes for many generations before General Larimer...
Calgary Culture and Entertainment District Culture, Entertainment, Stampede Civitas is currently working with a partnership of the Calgary Municipal Land Corporation and the Calgary Stampede in collaboration with the Calgary Flames to develop an urban design vision...
