The end of the year is a time for reflection on progress, as well as a time for looking toward the future and the accomplishments yet to come. We will ring in our 20th anniversary in this new year with the joy of witnessing how activating communities can lead to physical, social, and environmental health […]
by Fred Young, Design Associate at Alta Planning + Design For some of us in Alta’s Seattle office, the Tour de France is a much-anticipated event, but maybe not in the way you’d think. For centuries, the Dutch have been masters of the graphic arts, and they have continued this tradition in the care and […]
by Ryan Johnson, Planner, Alta Planning + Design I recently returned from a two-week trip to Europe, and I obviously spent a lot of time observing pedestrian and bicycle culture and infrastructure. Rather than simply envy our neighbors across the pond for their walkable and bike-friendly cities and believe that we Yanks could never match […]
by Brad Davis, Senior Planner, Alta Planning + Design During our work on planning projects in Atlanta, such as Cycle Atlanta, we dusted off some great old plans from Atlanta transportation planning history. It wasn’t all highways back in the day. With so much cycling growth in recent years tied to projects like the Atlanta […]
by Tom Millar, Planner, Alta Planning + Design If you’ve been in the business of pedestrian and bicycle planning for very long, chances are you’ve seen a really great plan “sit on the shelf” and languish without implementation. Momentum is usually built in a community during plan development. Often, a finite window of opportunity exists […]
Complete Street in Seattle, WA. Like a shopping mall, but better. For most of you, this may not be the first time you’ve heard about Complete Streets. Today, 34 states and over 550 jurisdictions nationwide have Complete Streets policies or resolutions. This is pretty amazing considering that the nascence of the term Complete Streets, and the […]
by Phil Goff, Planner, Alta Planning + Design Frederick Law Olmsted’s Emerald Necklace is Boston’s late-19th century gem that helped open the design/engineering profession’s eyes to the ability of well-designed landscapes to tie together parts of the city with a network of green spaces, boulevards, parks and carriageways. Like Central Park and others, it was […]
