From Office Parks To Company Towns

"Barry Ludwig designs cutting-edge office parks. What he tries to create is a sense of community and connection -- which means looking to ancient cities for design principles... Inspired by social anthropologists and city planners, Ludwig is taking the old idea that a well-planned town creates a vibrant community and applying it to a new office park that will house thousands of Cisco Systems' employees along with several other companies. When finished ( the completion schedule is subject to the economy ), Coyote Valley Research Park will look like a New Age version of a farming city. There will be neighborhoods, nature trails, and parking lots that mimic the look of plowed fields."