"Every year since 2000, The Zweig Letter has recognized the fastest-growing architecture, engineering, and environmental consulting firms on the basis of percentage growth and dollar growth. Over the years, the "Hot Firm" designation has become synonymous with success in the industry.

This year, The Zweig Letter Hot Firm List is again recognizing the 200 fastest-growing firms and will also recognize the top growing firms by size and by type of work. The winners are listed in alphabetical order below. The full rankings will be announced at the  The Zweig Letter Hot Firm 2009 Conference, October 28-30, 2009 in Las Vegas. The complete rankings will also be announced in a special issue of The Zweig Letter in August.

Anyone who sees municipal parking requirements simply as an issue of parking supply is missing the bigger picture. Parking requirements proscribed within zoning codes are a powerful tool for directingand shaping a city’s complete transportation framework. Such requirements can guide the aestheticand functional qualities of off-street parking facilities — ensuring that buildings play nice with thestreetscape and direct their traffic away from primary pedestrian, bicycle, and transit routes; require or incentivize support for sustainable modes of access;require or incentivize transportation demand management program commitments; and outline strategies for reducing the cost of accommodating vehicles — which in turn can lower the cost of the goods, services, and or housing being offered. As the world continues to develop and populations continue to urbanize, the collective ability of communities to use zoning and other tools to shape local transportation conditions around common shared values will have increasingly far-reaching impacts.

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