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1. How walkable neighborhoods increase home values - Posted by: Kevin Klinkenberg It’s often said that Americans love their cars above everything else, and many question the demand for walkable neighborhoods. And yet, as this and other studies have revealed, quality walkable places are highly valued. This shouldn’t be surprising – as human beings, we inherently like to interact with others, and we prefer [...]
2. 180º Urban Design Helps to Redesign Communities along the Gulf Coast after Hurricane Katrina - Listen to Kevin Klinkenberg talk about 180º's involvement in redesigning communities along the Gulf Coast after Hurricane Katrina.
3. DOT and HUD Develop Partnership to Promote Sustainable Communities - A blog post from Matthew Yglesias of Think Progress, takes a look at how the DOT and HUD have created a high-level agency task force to better coordinate federal transportation and housing investments.The key strategies include giving American families more choices for affordable housing near employment; more transportation options in order to lower [...]
4. A master plan behind covering the Path to Prosperity in shade: Incorporating “street trees” into the urban design of neighborhoods - In his seminal book “Great Streets”, Allan Jacobs wrote “given a limited budget, the most effective expenditure of funds to improve a street would probably be on trees.” I couldn’t agree more. This is not simply an exercise in greenwashing or tree-hugging. In fact, when planning for cities one of the more damaging paths to go down [...]
5. New Urban News lead: The Case for Simple Grids - Instead, new urbanists are more inspired by City Beautiful, Garden City, and European urban patterns, according to architect Kevin Klinkenberg of 180 Degrees Design Studio. Deflections, curves, and changes in block patterns are liberally employed throughout most new urban plans.