Projects
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Pasadena, California: In 1964 the State of California seized a large swath of Pasadena’s land, demolishing thousands of homes in order to extend the 710 Freeway north. A citizen-led movement stalled the project, however, leaving a freeway stub that interrupts the street grid and neighborhoods. The 710 Freeway Reclaim, a community-based initiative, proposes to rebuild the urban fabric destroyed over 50 years ago.
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Fresno, California: This new plan addresses the long-term challenges of Fresno’s 7,200-acre core area, including the Fulton Corridor, the historic Fulton Mall and surrounding neighborhoods.
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Cotati, California: The faded downtown of Cotati, a Sonoma County city with a rich local history, has been revitalized with a charrette-led specific plan and form-based code that articulates historically sensitive restoration and new development.
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Pasadena, California: Moule & Polyzoides developed design guidelines for the City of Pasadena that promote architectural and design excellence in the residential, retail and mixed-use development found along many of Pasadena’s principal corridors.
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Tehachapi, California: The Tehachapi form-based general plan, based on an urban-to-rural transect, focuses on understanding how this community can succeed economically while preserving its rural small town character.
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Ventura, California: The Ventura Downtown Code is one of the first Form-Based Zoning Codes in California—the result of an extensive and detailed analysis of downtown Ventura’s existing streets, blocks, buildings, public open spaces and landscape.
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Biloxi, Mississippi: After the ravages of Hurricane Katrina, Moule & Polyzoides was invited to participate in a national charrette to provide emergency urban design services for the reconstruction of Biloxi.
Recognition
News
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The Transit Zoning Code from the Santa Ana Renaissance Specific Plan has been recognized with a Richard H. Driehaus Charitable Lead Trust Form-Based Codes Award.
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The Fresno Downtown Neighborhoods Community Plan, part of the Downtown Fresno Specific Plan was released on October 7.
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Moule & Polyzoides has been selected to lead a major planning effort for Fresno, California, the state’s fifth largest city.
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Parklands, Moule & Polyzoides’s design of a 67-acre Traditional Neighborhood Development in Ventura, California, has been adopted by the City of Ventura.
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Moule & Polyzoides led a five-day charrette for the City of Downey, California
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The Public Draft Downtown Cotati Specific Plan, a Form-Based Code that articulates historically sensitive restoration and new development into its 54-acre downtown, has been released to the public.
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A multidisciplinary team of 20 consultants led by Moule & Polyzoides conducted a weeklong charrette in the City of Sunland Park, New Mexico to design a Master Plan for the Border Crossing, McNutt Corridor and Downtown District.
Press
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Elizabeth Moule & Stefanos Polyzoides discuss their practice, New Urbanism, their partnership and their life together in Pasadena.
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The Los Angeles Times reports about the controversy between New Urbanist and Modernist architects stirred by the post-Hurricane Katrina charrette in Biloxi.
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New York Times article about the national charrette that provided emergency urban design services for the reconstruction of Biloxi, Mississippi after Hurricane Katrina.
