How can we change our perceived notions and give them new identities? How can we reclaim these areas for the community and create new positive memories? How does this impact the surrounding area?

Just because a city is suburban doesn’t mean it has to act that way. The City of Villa Hills approached us with the idea to grow the city, to increase density and diversity of housing without building large apartment complexes and to create central, mixed-use spaces.

From a design perspective, the integration of large-scale developments like convention centers, casinos, shopping malls, or stadiums into a city’s urban fabric hasn’t always been done well.

Our last post posed the question, “why doesn’t infill development fit in our communities?”

We talked about some reasons: economic factors, contradicting construction methods, scale, and most of all, a disregard for context. Being the ambitious malcontents we are, we refuse to believe we're stuck.