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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 [...]
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4. Klinkenberg presents to City Council/Planning Commission/Downtown Development Authority in Wyoming, Mich.; discusses form-based codes - I recently visited Wyoming, Mich. to make a presentation at a joint City Council / Planning Commission / Downtown Development Authority meeting. The discussion involved ideas for redeveloping a key corridor that is the city’s “downtown.” 28th Street is in many ways a typical first-ring suburban corridor, complete with a first-generation enclosed mall, a defunct [...]
5. WATCH: Kevin Klinkenberg on Form-Based Codes in Your Community - Watch Kevin Klinkenberg discuss and compare commonly used techniques, and progressive ideas such as Form-Based Codes (FBCs).