Do you have any favorite green buildings or sustainable communities, besides Poundbury?
Taos Pueblo comes to mind. It has been sustained, largely by the sun, for 900 years. Our own work at Upton outside of Northampton [60 miles (97 km) north of London], where the foundation did the charrette and initial master plan, is incorporating compact, mixed-income, and mixed-use traditional urbanism, sustainable urban drainage, and a high degree of green building. The work that Leon Krier, Robert Adam Associates, and the Duchy of Cornwall are doing at Newquay in Cornwall, and the project that we are doing with Paul Murrain and the developer Red Tree at Sherford outside of Plymouth promise to take sustainability to the next level. The NRDC building in Santa Monica by Moule Polyzoides is not only beautiful, but also a benchmark in green building, as are the firm’s transit-oriented development projects in Pasadena and South Pasadena. Fregonese Calthorpe’s plans for Austin, Salt Lake City, and southern California, and their emerging work in Louisiana demonstrate that to be truly sustai
