Yale Urban Design Workshop

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Our work has had real impact on communities across Connecticut — in the execution of projects, building of new capacities, creating new knowledge, and producing new communities around shared visions and values.  

In New Haven’s Dwight neighborhood, what began as a neighborhood planning process back in 1995 has evolved into a long-term relationship spanning three decades.  The Workshop has helped Dwight to rehabilitate blighted houses as affordable housing, build a new grocery store in a food desert, expand pre-K availability to neighborhood families, and provide places for the community to meet together.  Today we are collaborating with Dwight on two important studies as part of the Dwight Healthy and Just Neighborhood Project, focused on health and the urban environment, including air quality and urban heat. Read about our work in Dwight in the archive.

In Groton, Connecticut, what began with a small house museum asking how they could be more relevant in their community evolved into Connecticut’s first regional heritage park: the Thames River Heritage Park.  Bringing together four anchor sites with 12 additional sites, TRHP has been wildly successful, and today offers joint programming, and tours, all connected by a water taxi which allows visitors to get out in the shared public space of the Thames river.  Graphics and signage designed by the Workshop as part of the process bring the park together. See more in the archive.  

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