Our Work: Urban Design

Harry Dodson began working in cities while still a graduate student in the late 1970's, building a new community park in the South Bronx neighborhood of New York. Since then, Dodson Associates has developed award-winning plans for Copley Square in Boston, the Boston Harbor Islands and an environmental restoration plan for Houston's Buffalo Bayou. The firm's work emphasizes the need to restore environmental health to blighted urban areas and to use traditional planning and design techniques to revitalize urban neighborhoods. Dodson Associates' urban design and visioning work for cities such as Chicago, New York, Berlin and Washington, DC has applied smart growth and new urban principles to problems of urban decay, suburban sprawl and transportation gridlock.

Featured Projects

Boston Visions Competition Award-winning plan for ecological and recreational restoration of Boston Harbor using fill from the Big Dig.		Copley Square National Design Competition Award-winning plan for the renovation of Boston's Copley Square included new pavement, concession pavillion, farmers market, fountain and new lawns and street trees. Elements of the plan were incorporated in the restoration.		Berlin Regional Design Strategies Recommendations for controlling sprawl after the fall of the Berlin Wall included transit-oriented development and restoration of traditional urban patterns.		New Jersey Regional Design Program Guidelines for siting and designing new development formed a key element of the 2000 New Jersey State Plan for Development and Redevelopment.