He's emphasizing housing in his Philadelphia plan. Leonardo said this team understands brownfield redevelopment. Ralph Lerner, chairman at Princeton Architecture School is teamed with well-known Martha Schwartz Inc. landscape architects. Work on Battery Park in lower Manhattan is considered a plus for this team. Michael Sorkin Studio is using an in-house crew with an emphasis on visionary design.
Urban neighborhoods are a specialty.
James Corner, head of the landscape architecture and regional planning department at the University of Pennsylvania, is teamed with premier waterfront planner Ken Greenberg and Toronto-based Urban Strategies. Local guys Wallace, Roberts and Todd who, among their hundreds of impressive projects, did the original plan for Baltimore's Harbor Place. Md.-based Torti Gallas has done major housing projects nationwide. Philadelphia firm Kise, Straw and Kolodner is teamed with prestigious Cambridge firm Carol Johnson Associates. They've done a number of waterfront plans, including a plan for Hartford which attracted a lot of attention.