Roger Hodges is an urban designer with experience in infill design, residential construction, and land use planning.  His work includes transit and pedestrian-oriented centers, community masterplans, and transportation and land use policy.  At Calthorpe Associates, he has worked on a variety of projects, including:

Daybreak, South Jordan, Utah – Comprising 4,700 acres, this development is located at the base of the Oquirrh Mountains in the Salt Lake Valley. The project will include a mixed-use town center surrounded by walkable neighborhoods, each with its’ own neighborhood or village center. The development is designed around an extensive open space system comprising twenty five percent of the site. A sustainable ecological system will be integrated into all aspects of the community’s development, from street and building design to open space location.

Over 2,000 homes are now occupied, with the Village Center retail set to break ground in the Summer of 2008 and 300 employees to move in late 2008. In late 2009 UTA light rail will come to two transit stations at the heart of Daybreak.

Berryessa BART Station Area (San Jose, CA) — The 120 acre former Flea Market site will become the core of the Berryessa BART Station Area, a vital mixed-use activity node in eastern San Jose. It will help the city of San Jose achieve several of its Transit-Oriented Development Goals by providing a vibrant diversity of residential, shopping and employment uses, and by building flexibility into the plan to remain viable to the needs of the future. It will help San Jose reach its housing goals by providing up to 2,800 residential units that will serve a mixture of needs not already served by the largely single family neighborhoods extant in eastern San Jose.

Bremerton (WA) Downtown Smart Strategies — Unified several stalled and discontiguous development efforts into one cohesive strategy that helped unlock the revitalization of Bremerton’s downtown and waterfront. In the few short years since 2002, Bremerton has had at least 25 redevelopment projects totaling over $500 million. These include: a new convention and hotel complex, major employment from an integrated city/county government office center, a renovated ferry terminal, several hundred units of waterfront housing, and discreet infill to help this aging downtown reclaim its former position as the focal point of Kitsap County and as the Gateway to the Olympic Peninsula.

Little Blue River Valley (Independence, MO) — Structured as a series of villages defined by the existing landform, this 1,400 acre Masterplan treats nature as a valued resource and amenity.  Extensive trail networks, conservation restrictions on residential parcels, and a close proximity of homes to preserved features such as wooded hills, riparian stream corridors, and floodplain bottomlands foster a sense of connection to nature and the history of this valley.

Nut Tree Mixed-Use Redevelopment - An adaptive reuse of the roadside landmark Nut Tree Restaurant. This project weaves a diverse program of unique destination retail, small office, residential flats and townhomes, and a hotel/conference/fitness center in an active , walkable core that interacts with an adjacent small-craft airport and nearby regional outlet shopping.

Richmond (CA) Transit Village — An infill plan for an 18acre inner-city rail (BART/Amtrak) station area, including innovative starter-home types, parks and civic uses. The plan was the winner of a developer-driven competition sponsored by BART and the City of Richmond.

Roger Hodges received his Masters in Architecture at the University of Washington, where he tailored his studies to issues of urban design, studied in Rome for one year, and wrote a thesis on the retrofitting of auto-oriented suburbs for finer-grained residential, commercial, and transportation options.  Mr. Hodges was previously graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Environmental Design from the University of California at Berkeley.