With Calthorpe Associates, she directs the firm's planning efforts, with an emphasis on land planning, design guidelines and implementation programs. She has been involved with the writing of two documents for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development: Vision/Reality: Strategies for Community Change and the Empowerment Zone Guidebook.
The firm focuses on the realization of walkable, mixed-use neighborhoods which are environmentally sound, economically diverse and socially responsible. The firm has been in the forefront of developing the concepts of Pedestrian Pockets, Transit-Oriented Development, and "urban village" planning.