From 2007-09 we worked on the Downtown Plan for Scottsdale, Arizona. This was a particularly special project since I’d grown up in Scottsdale, twenty years earlier. The downtown was going through a resurgence and people were excited to work on the plan.
Like the rest of our projects, there were lots of photos. This first set was taken for the proposal early on an April morning in 2007.
Earlier this month I uploaded photos taken on a summer evening by our staff for the Comprehensive Plan in Logansport, Indiana. Here are a few more, taken the same evening, of corn fields outside town.
Photos by Amber Eisan and Mishayla Binkerd.
In 2010-2011 we assisted the City of Foster City with the existing conditions analysis for the Land Use & Circulation Element of its General Plan. This involved lots of photos.
Foster City is a master-planned “new town” founded in the 1960s on engineered landfill in the marshes of the San Francisco Bay. The city was named after T. Jack Foster, a real estate magnate who owned much of the land comprising the city and who was instrumental in its initial design.
The neighborhoods in Foster City are numbered: Neighborhoods 1 through 9, as well as C, L, PT, TC and VP. The street names area also named around themes such as fish, ports and famous explorers.
The first homes in Neighborhood 1 were completed in 1964. Homes were provided by three developers: Kay Builders, Duc and Elliot and Joseph Eichler, chosen by city founder T. Jack Foster to provide variety. Homes from each builder were situated together on each street to provide variety. The sales were brisk and Neighborhood 2 soon followed, with homes by the same three developers. The single family homes were completed by 1969, though apartments and townhouses continued to be developed into the next decades.
The photos here show Neighborhood 1 and 2, with streets named after famous ships and birds, respectively.
In 2008-09 we assisted the City of Logansport, Indiana with a new Comprehensive Plan. One of the best decisions we made was to include two local college students from Logansport on our team, Amber and Mishayla. They helped us facilitate workshops, wrote and edited documents, and took lots and lots of photos.
Over the course of the plan we took dozens and dozens of photos, but one group of photos was especially memorable. One August evening Amber and Mishayla headed out after they’d finished work and took a series of photos in the twilight hours. Looking through the photos, I can feel the warm heavy air of the midwest summer, and I want to go out for frozen custard.
Photos by Amber Eisan and Mishayla Binkerd.
Back in May I posted some photos that were taken for our work on the Downtown Napa Specific Plan. There are lots more though – here’s another sampling.
As part of our consulting work, we assisted the City of Belvedere with the update of its General Plan. Belvedere Island has a network of pedestrian lanes and stairways, photographed here in 2009:
Through the years of the consulting business we compiled a lot of photos, so an aspect of this site is to provide a venue for pulling those out of the archives. Here is a handful of photos from 2008 of the planned community of Verrado in Buckeye, Arizona:
Through the years of the consulting business we compiled a lot of photos, so part of this site will be to provide a venue for pulling those out of the archives. Here is a handful of duotone photos produced for a proposal for Fitchburg, Wisconsin, taken in 2009:
Through the years of the consulting business we compiled a lot of photos, so part of this site will be to provide a venue for pulling those out of the archives. Here is a handful of photos pulled from work on the Downtown Plan for the City of Napa, taken in 2009-2010:
Through the years of the consulting business we compiled a lot of photos, so part of this site will be to provide a venue for pulling those out of the archives. Here we make a brief stop in Delphi, Indiana. We were working on a project in nearby Logansport, and we passed through Delphi a few times on the way.
