To date, the LRA Fund / Support Foundation has contracted with the following firms to provide input and assistance to the Louisiana Recovery Authority in their planning efforts:
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Calthorpe Associates
With an interdisciplinary staff of urban designers, planners, architects, and landscape architects, Calthorpe Associates provides comprehensive planning, design, and implementation of services. The firm's expertise ranges from individual buildings to regional plans, from housing and retail development to commercial and civic design. Calthorpe's wide range of experience provides a unique perspective and facilitates the development of mixed-use community plans that are grounded in a detailed knowledge of their elements.
Led by the firm's principal, Peter Calthorpe, Calthorpe Associates' design philosophy focuses on creating communities that are diverse, mixed use, and pedestrian friendly. The firm places a special emphasis on fostering neighborhoods that provide a range of housing in close proximity to shopping, jobs, recreation, and transit - walkable communities that offer realistic housing and transportation choices. Projects range from urban infill and redevelopment plans to new towns and regional growth strategies.
Web Site: www.calthorpe.com
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Center for Planning Excellence
The Center for Planning Excellence (CPEX) is created to serve as a resource for residents, community organizations, developers and elected officials to provide information on best practices for planning and urban design. This organization will educate, inspire and encourage quality control in planning and development. The Center for Planning Excellence will be the liaison between the LRA Support Foundation and the consultant team during the Louisiana Speaks planning process.
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Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company
Celebrating its 25th year in 2005, Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company (DPZ) is a leader in the practice and direction of urban planning, having designed over 300 new and existing communities in the United States and overseas. DPZ projects have received numerous awards, including two National AIA Awards and two Governor's Urban Design Awards for Excellence. The firm is led by its principals, Andres Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk.
A significant aspect of DPZ's work is its innovative use of planning regulations that accompany each design. Tailored to the individual project, the codes address the manner in which buildings are formed and located to ensure that they create useful and distinctive public spaces. Local architectural traditions and building techniques are also codified within regulations. DPZ will bring the designs to life during town meetings called charrettes.
Web Site: www.dpz.com
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Urban Design Associates
Urban Design Associates (UDA) is a nationally recognized leader in creating beautiful and successful neighborhoods, waterfronts and downtowns for both existing and new communities. UDA's designs are conceived as three-dimensional environments through the use of perspective drawing and modeling techniques in the early stages of conceptual design. The character and quality of building designs and landscape elements become part of the planning process when the most important decisions are made. In the course of UDA's 41-year history, in communities all across the United States and in Europe, the firm's techniques have enabled it to tailor designs that respond to the history, character and traditions of the regions in which they are located. In the public visioning processes, the values and qualities that people would like to see in their community are quickly translated into three-dimensional images.
UDA has received over 70 awards for their work in urban design and architecture. These have included a Presidential Award for the transformation of a public housing project, two Progressive Architecture Awards for neighborhoods, four National AIA Honor Awards, and several national HUD Awards for downtown work as well as neighborhood efforts.
Web Site: www.urbandesignassociates.com
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The Consultants and Planners contracted by the LRA Fund / Support Foundation have engaged additional parties to participate in this massive planning effort. To review a listing of these entities, click here.
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