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Tag Archives: streetscaping
Transforming an eyesore into eye-candy
Similar to the image above, the vast majority of highway and railroad underpasses across the country are the epitome of sterile concrete and overgrown weeds. Left as underutilized vacant space, they hardly engender any sort of warmth or welcome, particularly … Continue reading
Posted in Active transportation, adaptive reuse, architecture, art, bicycling, Biking, Cars, cities, civics, civility, economic development, economic gardening, fitness, fun, geography, hiking, history, infrastructure, land use, landscape architecture, pictures, placemaking, planning, revitalization, spatial design, topography, tourism, traffic, trails, transportation, Travel, urban planning, visual pollution, walking
Tagged cities, civics, gardening, Greater Mt. Pleasant, highways, infrastructure, land use, landscaping, micropolitan, non-motorized plan, placemakng, planning, streets, streetscaping, tourism, transportation, travel, urban planning
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Turning the bland into grand
As an avid bicycle commuter who resides in a community where bikes are permitted to ride along certain roadside paved pathways (sidewalks of 7-8 feet wide), I find the gray blandness of most sidewalks/pathways to be quite boring and uninspiring. … Continue reading
Posted in Active transportation, architecture, art, bicycling, Biking, branding, cities, civics, Communications, culture, diversity, downtown, economic development, entrepreneurship, environment, fitness, fun, geography, health, historic preservation, infrastructure, land use, landscape architecture, light pollution, new urbanism, placemaking, planning, product design, revitalization, spatial design, sustainability, third places, tourism, trails, transportation, Travel, urban planning, walking
Tagged arts, bicycling, cities, infrastructure, landscape architecture, landscaping, pathways, sidewalks, streetscaping, trails, urban planning, walking
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