How Do You Tackle $1 Billion in Sidewalk Repair?

July 23, 2015

by Anne Conlon, Senior Planner with Collin Chesston, Planner The City of Memphis’ pedestrian network includes over 3,400 miles of existing sidewalks. That’s roughly equivalent to the distance between Seattle and Miami! As the City’s public infrastructure has aged, the growing need for repair and maintenance of this network has significantly outpaced the maintenance completed […]

Counting Pedestrians… For the love of the numbers? Or is there something more?

July 2, 2014

by Melissa Miklus, Senior Designer, Alta Planning + Design There are many people out there who love numbers. In fact, it seems their love of percentages and statistics take over the true purpose of analysis to begin with. Some planning documents boast, “We surveyed 20 percent of the population, 50 percent of whom answered this […]