Green street

The Philadelphia Water Department has announced the publication of Philadelphia’s Green Streets Design Manual! Streets account for 38% of Philadelphia’s impervious surfaces, and are the…

“In authentic experience, ‘home’, whether a house, a village, or a region… is a central point of existence and individual identity from which you look out on the rest of the world.” – Edward Relph In 2014 Alison Brooks Architects with developer Hill and and Pollard Thomas Edwards (PTE) authored this major new component of … Continued

Download scientific diagram | Streetscape in Seattle, Washington, that meets the Green Factor requirement for commercial zones, 2012. (City of Seattle Office of Planning and Community Development) from publication: Greening Cities in an Urbanizing Age: The Human Health Bases in the Nineteenth and Early Twenty-first Centuries | Defined here as the introduction or conservation of outdoor vegetation in cities, urban greening has bloomed during periods of intensive urbanization. This was true in…

Imagine a London where wildflowers are as commonplace as asphalt is today, that's just what WATG has done with their 'Green Block' proposal.

Before we paved the streets of San Francisco, little creeks and wetlands were abundant. Today, as in most cities, these natural water features have been replaced by a sewer network that effectively throws away rainwater instead of finding ways to reuse it. The SF Public Utilities Commission is launching a new effort to change our approach to stormwater management.

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Lola Domènech: The layout of paseo de St Joan as an important 50m boulevard was first laid down by Ildefons Cerdà in his Ensanche project, approved in 1859. Cerdà’s isotropic layout of 20m-wide streets also features various main 50m-boulevards with wide pavements lined with two rows of trees as well as a central roadway. Passeig […]

While enabling cars to move around is not unimportant, I applaud those leaders who are also directing our attention -- and the attention of public departments of transportation -- back to people, to streets as not just conveyances but also destinations, places to linger on foot, as places of beauty, as places whose look and feel greatly define what it means to be in a particular community, why one city differs from another.

Plan West: West Baton Rouge Parish Comprehensive Plan | Tipton Associates