David Dixon, a Boston-based architect and urban planner with Stantec, is nationally renowned for re-imagining strip malls into new suburban downtowns, launching innovation districts in urban corridors and rethinking the role of density in building more livable, walkable, resilient and equitable communities.

Around these parts, however, Dixon is best known for helping draft New Orleans’ post-Hurricane Katrina master plan, which was completed in 2007 and became law in 2010. In the years since, the plan has been influential in guiding growth and development in the city, including projects like the Lafitte Greenway and the conversion of historic downtown office buildings into hotels and apartments.

Earlier this month, Dixon was back in New Orleans to deliver the Jacob Haight and Mary Meek Mo

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