Traditional neighborhoods of tree-lined avenues and main streets offer a compelling vision; however, the past is not a model for the future. People moving into urban neighborhoods today are wealthier and more racially diverse, have fewer children, and are less likely to participate in local churches or other longstanding neighborhood institutions than their urban forbears. Revitalized and new neighborhoods need a far more diverse range of housing types (from single family to lofts and sometimes high rise), more active parks that invite people to use them, and greater density to support traditional main streets. Case studies from different parts of the country, geared toward different markets and sponsored by different entities, will be featured.

   Learning objectives:

• Review the changing types of housing, mixed-use main street development, and even schools and other civic buildings that are appropriate for changing neighborhood demographics, incomes, and values
• Explore the dramatic demographic and economic shifts that are fueling long-term urban revival and the ways in which architects can assist communities in shaping the resulting changes to the form and character of cities
• Examine three very different case studies, from the Midwest, Virginia, and the deep South, of neighborhood development and revitalization initiated through private development, public planning, and leadership by foundations