Projects
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Hazel Park, Michigan: This project transforms two-mile corridor of John R. Road which has deteriorated due to rampant sprawl and disinvestment over the past 50 years. This study outlines an incremental planning framework that creates a new downtown for Hazel Park by guiding the beginnings of two districts with a series of public and private catalytic projects.
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La Quinta, California: This project transforms an eight-lane asphalted highway into a six-lane thoroughfare with parallel parking and a central median, creating a cultural oasis in the desert of La Quinta.
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Albuquerque, New Mexico : The Sawmill District in Albuquerque is reimagined as a 24/7 cultural, dining, specialty retail, hospitality and entertainment hub. With attractive storefronts, plentiful landscaping, streets and sidewalks, the district is transformed into a rich, open-space network centered on a public plaza.
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Montclair, California: This streetscape plan for two important thoroughfares in the Montclair’s downtown is the result of a three-month collaboration between the City of Montclair and the consultant team, representing a radical departure from the typical sprawl trends that have characterized this postwar suburb since the 1960s.
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Alamo Heights, Texas: This plan for a one-mile corridor recasts streets as urban avenues with wide sidewalks, landscaped medians and a streetcar, with plans for developing mixed-use and multi-family buildings supported by transit and a park-once district.
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South Pasadena, California: This plan creates a long-term vision for the historic downtown area of South Pasadena, focusing on two streets, Mission Street and Fair Oaks Avenue, and the existing Gold Line light rail station.
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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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La Chorrera, Republic of Panama: Market Plaza features 600 dwelling units and 27,500 square meters of retail and office space in the suburbs of Panama City.
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Lancaster, California: The redesign of Lancaster Boulevard establishes a lively public realm with reconfigured streets, plazas, paseos and other public spaces, remedying the loss of the City’s traditional downtown character.
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Ventura, California: As part of a conceptual master plan for a number of downtown streets, the California Street Bridge design reconnects downtown Ventura with the coastline.
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Beverly Hills, California: The character of the Golden Triangle has been strengthened by transforming the area into a park-once district, adding improved landscape and lighting, and adopting a code to guide the design of future buildings.
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Albuquerque, New Mexico: East Downtown is in the process of revitalizing its Central Avenue and Broadway corridors with light rail and a comprehensive redevelopment strategy.
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Tucson, Arizona: A plan for enhancing a five-mile stretch of the Stone Avenue Corridor identifies a pivotal intersection as an urban gateway to surrounding areas and outlines a typological infill strategy to develop underused sites.
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Bellflower, California: A dilapidated streetscape was revitalized by removing 1960s-era siding, which had hidden a beautiful art deco façade, and with improved signage, lighting and paint.
Press
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From dilapidated strip to destination—the comeback story of Lancaster, California.
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CNU's "Public Square" discusses the Lancaster Boulevard Transformation and it's EPA National Award for Smart Growth Achievement.
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Kaid Benfield reports about the Moule & Polyzoides redesign of Lancaster Boulevard, which has transformed the City's downtown and how it fits with Lancaster's enlightened planning initiatives.
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Video about the Lancaster Blvd Transformation, shown at the 2012 Smart Growth Achievement Awards ceremony.
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Los Angeles Times article about the Lancaster Bouelvard Transformation receiving the EPA's National Award for Smart Growth Achievement.
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Rye Baerg visits Lancaster Boulevard to experience "the amazing transformation" of Lancaster's downtown and describes the street redesign as "a resounding success for businesses and residents."
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Greg Konar, AICP visits Lancaster Boulevard for the first time in seven years to enjoy the cafes and shopping and experience the "astonishing" transformation of Lancaster Boulevard, which is now "the hottest street in Antelope Valley."
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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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An article in Grid about a new form of real estate financing that underwrites innovative forms of development such as the East Downtown Broadway Central Corridor.
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New Urban News article about the East Downtown Broadway Central Corridor project.
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Wall Street Journal article about the East Downtown Broadway Central Corridor project, which revitalizes an important downtown neighborhood in Albuquerque.
Talks
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Stefanos delivered a lecture on the design of urban right-of–ways, drawing on a number of recent Moule & Polyzoides projects.
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Stefanos spoke at the International Seminar on Architecture in the Age of Austerity in Madrid last June about the unique role of the street and the block in the urban landscape.
Recognition
Thoughts
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In-depth analysis of Les Rambles and La Rambla Catalunya in Barcelona.
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Stefanos Polyzoides gave a keynote speech at the Re:Street Conference which explored the new science of streets and the form of the future city.
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The form of the New Urbanism is realized by the deliberate assembly of streets, blocks and buildings.
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In the work of the New Urbanism, we start with the premise that buildings and the space between (streets and squares) must be a balanced ensemble of pavement, streetwalls, green and building walls.
News
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The Southern California Association of Governments has awarded the Lancaster Boulevard Transformation with a Compass Blueprint Award.
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The redesigned Lancaster Boulevard in downtown Lancaster, California has been transformed from a high-speed thoroughfare with struggling businesses into a grand new civic space.
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Moule & Polyzoides’ design for the central streets within the downtown of the City of Lancaster, California, is set to break ground next Tuesday, March 9th at 1:00 PM with a press conference and ceremony on Lancaster Boulevard.
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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.
