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1. The Pitch features Kansas City’s 180 Design Studio, Kevin Klinkenberg; highlights new urbanism design of downtown Blue Springs - I want to thank everyone over at one of Kansas City’s weekly newspapers, The Pitch. They recently highlighted our work on the redevelopment of downtown Blue Springs, Mo. Follow this link to take a look at what they said: The Pitch showcases 180° Urban Design and Architecture
2. 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 [...]
3. A post from NRDC’s Switchboard: Orenco Station found to have more walking, community interaction - The following was written by Kaid Benfield and originally posted on the Switchboard, the NRDC blog:As many readers of this blog already know, Orenco Station was built as one of the country’s first new, suburban transit-oriented developments. It’s on Portland’s MAX light rail line in Hillsborough, Oregon, and comprises some 1,850 housing units and a [...]
4. Suburban sprawl slowing to a crawl: Could your suburb fall victim to the housing bust? - The following summary provides some important insight into suburban sprawl. First, how the lack of diversity in housing type in too many suburban communities is likely to impact the housing market in the coming decades. Plus, how the demographics for these areas are changing and what some of the likely remedies are for [...]
5. A Daily Dose of Architecture mentions Kansas City’s own New Urbanism Blog, adds 180 to blogroll - If you were to do a quick search for the top architecture blogs going right now, you’d quickly find a theme.  At the top of nearly every list is this amazing blog: A Daily Dose of Architecture. The mastermind behind this wonderful blog, John Hill, apparently liked what he saw on the New Urbanism Blog enough [...]