Traffic calming

traffic calming, landscape architecture, irrigation, coordination. Plan view rendering of the street with 2 lanes and parallel parking on 2 sides. Enjoy the Green experience, planters. Beautiful!

We’ve all heard about complete streets — streets that provide access to everyone, with ample space for pedestrians, bicyclists, cars, and buses. But, at GreenBuild in Los Angeles, a gro…

Bike plan reimagines urban design for a city where the car is king.

Curb extensions visually and physically narrow the roadway, creating safer and shorter crossings for pedestrians while increasing the available space for street furniture, benches, plantings, and street trees. They may be implemented on downtown, neighborhood, and residential streets, large and small. Curb extensions have multiple applications and may be segmented into various sub-categories, ranging from…

During major rain storms, Seattle’s storm drainage systems are often stressed. With large amounts of stormwater and wastewater heading down to water treatment plants, pipes can fill up quickl…

In my previous post, I illustrated a few ways that cities have given their infrastructure much-needed makeovers. But there is some urban infrastructure out there that’s already pretty welcoming for…