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Neighborhoods
The traditional neighborhood is the basic increment of community, integrating housing of various types with supporting retail, recreational, educational and sometimes employment uses in a comfortable, walkable environment. Sargent Town Planning prepares vision plans and form-based codes for new neighborhoods and neighborhood revitalization, for master developers and municipalities, in small towns and big cities, on greenfield, brownfield and greyfield sites.
Districts
Districts - with their concentrations of specific uses as in downtown shopping districts, employment districts, and other special purpose districts - are vital economic engines of any city. Mr. Sargent has led public processes for vision plans, form-based development codes and specific plans for downtown districts at many scales throughout California and in Texas and New York. His experience also includes plans for office and light industrial districts, car dealership districts and hospital districts.
Corridors
America's urban corridors - so many damaged by street widening and low quality auto-oriented development - represent a major opportunity for stitching our neighborhoods and cities back together. Street designs that improve walkability and transit coupled with mixed-use infill development can transform these strips into pedestrian-oriented mixed-use neighborhood edges, recycling low-performing real estate as a valuable urban amenity. Mr. Sargent has led vision plans and form-based codes for numerous corridor revitalization projects in California, Texas, Florida and New York.
Transit-Oriented Development
As America's cities struggle with traffic and air quality many are working to restore the sorts of robust transit systems that were discarded in the 1950's. Transit-oriented development (or TOD) is valuable tool for retrofitting our auto-dominated urban landscapes to higher value, walkable, mixed-use urban places, reintroducing the simple pleasure of walking to daily errands and the option of commuting by transit instead of sitting in traffic. Mr. Sargent has led plans for transit oriented development at the scale of towns and of cities, around bus rapid transit, streetcar, light rail and commuter heavy rail lines.