The Town of Shallotte is committed to enhancing its Central Business District as the economic, civic and cultural core of the community while activating the beautiful Shallotte River. As part of this commitment, the Town of Shallotte has contracted with the UNC School of Government's Development Finance Initiative (DFI) to conceive of and execute on [...]
Cobb Cavern is a greenfield eco-district masterplanned community on 1700 acres with three neighborhood centers. CGI provided conceptual infrastructure engineering and feedback during the design charrette.
Aerial Vignette - Kety, TX (Salon des Refusés, Illustration by author) In 2010, Crabtree Group Inc., joined an ad hoc design team backed by the environmental groups, Sea Grant Texas and the Texas Coastal Watershed Program, to create a counter-proposal for a competition that aimed to design a new subdivision. This new subdivision was [...]
The City of Ventura, CA applied a SmartCode overlay to a downtown redevelopment area and asked CGI to provide a watershed analysis and green infrastructure framework to appropriately comply with MS4 (Municipal Separate Stormwater Systems) regulations. CGI analyzed the watershed, discovered surprising opportunities and constraints, and developed green street retrofit designs so that the City [...]
The City of El Paso, TX commissioned a Traditional Neighborhood Development (TND) masterplan for 1000 acres of city-owned greenfield. Citizens were very concerned about rainwater sustainability and treatment of the arroyos. CGI analyzed the watersheds, explored alternative ways of mitigating development on alluvial fans, and designed a graduated approach to arroyo improvements that varied depending [...]
Subsidiarity, Cost-Estimating on the Fly, Transect-Based Infrastructure Including Costs
