New Jersey Regional Design Program
Location: New Jersey
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Client: New Jersey Office of State Planning, Trenton, NJ.

As part of a state-wide effort to bring Smart Growth to New Jersey, Dodson Associates prepared nine detailed planning scenarios for the 2000 New Jersey State Plan. The scenarios recommend planning and design techniques to blend new development with the environmental and cultural character of the state. Scenario sites range from urban centers to rural farmland. Proposed development types range from city squares, transit-oriented development centers, rehabilitation of commercial highway strips and infilling of town centers. The 2000 New Jersey State Plan won the 2000 Planning Award from the Congress of the New Urbanism.

The 2000 New Jersey State Plan emphasizes the importance of site planning and design as a foundation of attractive, functional communities.		Guidelines and planning recommendations showing the transformation of a polluted industrial river into a vibrant mixed-use community on restored marshland. Click image for full size view.
Recommendations for the reconstruction of an ailing commercial strip to create a dynamic town center shopping environment. Click image for full size view.		Suburban sprawl is destroying farmland and traditional town patterns at an alarming rate.