What makes a community a great place? The ingredients of placemaking include branding, signage, and environmental graphics that complement and reinforce the efforts of planners, engineers, and landscape architects to create great streets, trails, neighborhoods, and districts. The city of Travelers Rest, South Carolina, population 4,600, is an example of small town placemaking done well. […]
#WalkBikeForward: Join us on our journey honoring key moments and people that have shaped our field as we celebrate 20 years of creating active, healthy communities. Karen Minkel is Director of the Home Region Program at the Walton Family Foundation. She was previously Director of Strategic Planning for the city of Fayetteville, Arkansas and a […]
#WalkBikeForward: Join us on our journey honoring key moments and people that have shaped our field as we celebrate 20 years of creating active, healthy communities. Chuck Flink is one of America’s leading greenway designers. He founded and has run North Carolina-based Greenways Inc. since 1986, and is a Senior Advisor to Alta. Milestones on […]
By Nick Falbo, Senior Planner, Alta Planning + Design In the Portland/Vancouver region, we’re proud of the nature in our backyard. This love of nature ties our cities and counties together, literally, in the form of The Intertwine — our shared system of trails, parks and natural areas. But who’s actually using our trails? How many of […]
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 […]
