One Neighborhood at a Time: A Regeneration Strategy

one neighborhood at a time A Regeneration Strategy

portsmouth , virginia

Š  2011 urban design associates

Cities are never finished. Settlement happens, sites are chosen for their natural and strategic advantages, buildings built, and industry churns. Communities grow over time, ushering in change with each generation that grows up with them. While growth and decline is part of a natural order, the most resilient places constantly invest and reinvest, invent and reinvent, and do so neighborhood by neighborhood. Portsmouth is such a place.

Urban Design Associates

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Our neighborhoods are made up of buildings built on the heritage of what came before.

Sustainable urban regeneration begins in our neighborhoods.

westbury:

1997–2005 hope vi

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If we go outside we can go in the backyard, and ride our bikes and sit on the front porch.

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This is ours.

Marquia Eley, Resident

Regenerating neighborhoods is first a local movement that then leverages local and national resources.

westbury:

2005–2010 HOPE VI

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Resources are targeted to build back neighborhoods that connect to local heritage by using a local Pattern Book vocabulary for houses, apartments, parks, and walkable streets.

seaboard square:

2011

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r e g e n e r at e d n e i g h b o r h o o d s

r e c e n t u r b a n d es i g n a s s o c i at es/ p o r t s m o u t h r e g e n e r at i o n e ff o r t s

Cities are never finished. Each neighborhood that comes back into bloom brings with it the seed for the next generation, the next neighborhood.

special thanks to all involved who helped build one neighborhood at a time

The residents of Ida Barbour, Jeffry Wilson, and surrounding neighborhoods within Portsmouth

Portsmouth Redevelopment and Housing Authority The City of Portsmouth, Virginia U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Cornerstone Housing, LLC Chesapeake Community Advisors Horton & Dodd, P.C. LaQuatra Bonci Associates Dills Architects

project infor m ation

The City of Portsmouth and Urban Design Associates have worked together since 1995 incrementally regrowing urban neighborhoods as the primary means to strengthen the city’s urban core. Through this partnership, the collaboration between the city and the design team has produced measurable results and a clear vision for future engagements.

Westbury and Seaboard Square were developed under the HOPE VI program. They total 72 acres of redevelopment and nearly 1,000 new housing units that utilize existing infrastructure, is close to employment and education centers, and reinforce the unique identity of Portsmouth’s built heritage.