page_title: Harbor Town, Memphis
hierarchical_section_title: Harbor Town, Memphis
caption_attribution_description: Looking south down Wolf River Harbor with downtown Memphis, Tennessee, on the left, Mud Island on the right, and the Mississippi River in the extreme upper-right corner. This Mississippi River slackwater harbor was part of the Wolf River until 1960 when a canal was cut and a levee raised, diverting the Wolf into the Mississippi at the north end of Mud Island (which is really a peninsula). The photo was taken from 35°10′57″N 90°03′25″W﻿ / ﻿35.1825°N 90.05694°W
context_page_description: Harbor Town is an upscale, new urbanist-style neighborhood in Memphis, Tennessee. Harbor Town sits atop 132 acres on a sandbar known as Mud Island. The neighborhood emphasizes the human, not the automobile, and interaction between neighbors is encouraged. It was the collaborative effort of Memphis native and downtown developer Henry Turley, RTKL of Baltimore, Looney, Ricks and Kiss architectural firm from Memphis and consultant, Tony Bologna. They made a simple book that plainly told "do this and don't do that"- development guidelines that would grow Harbor Town into the kind of community now known as New Urbanism. Today, Harbor Town is dense and walkable, offering traditional row houses, contemporary homes, apartments, shops, restaurants, schools, parks, and a marina. It is much studied by city planners from all over the world.
  Today the trees are mature, the cars are tucked away into alleys behind houses, the river beckons, and the downtown core is a stones throw away.
context_section_description: Harbor Town is an upscale, new urbanist-style neighborhood in Memphis, Tennessee. Harbor Town sits atop 132 acres on a sandbar known as Mud Island. The neighborhood emphasizes the human, not the automobile, and interaction between neighbors is encouraged. It was the collaborative effort of Memphis native and downtown developer Henry Turley, RTKL of Baltimore, Looney, Ricks and Kiss architectural firm from Memphis and consultant, Tony Bologna. They made a simple book that plainly told "do this and don't do that"- development guidelines that would grow Harbor Town into the kind of community now known as New Urbanism. Today, Harbor Town is dense and walkable, offering traditional row houses, contemporary homes, apartments, shops, restaurants, schools, parks, and a marina. It is much studied by city planners from all over the world.
  Today the trees are mature, the cars are tucked away into alleys behind houses, the river beckons, and the downtown core is a stones throw away.
caption: Wolf River Harbor, 2006
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