Savannah Urbanism Series featuring Hank Dittmar

Savannah Urbanism Series featuring Hank Dittmar

The Savannah Urbanism Series will welcome guest speaker Hank Dittmar, a renowned urban designer and expert on city resilience and transit, advising governments, companies and communities across the world of strategies for the Urban Century. The free Savannah Urbanism...
Restoring Balance: Public Space and Transportation Design

Restoring Balance: Public Space and Transportation Design

The design of our streets and public rights of way is a never-ending challenge. From the perspective of a redevelopment agency, street design and public space design are paramount. The choices we make for our public spaces have far-reaching ramifications for public...
Can we create a new downtown?

Can we create a new downtown?

Our understanding of development for years has fallen into two basic categories: there are old cities that have downtowns and historic neighborhoods, and there is modern suburban development with its subdivisions, office parks and retail centers. So, when someone...
Reconnecting with the Street Grid

Reconnecting with the Street Grid

It seems strange to most people that the idea of removing infrastructure could ever be a good thing. But in many cities, that’s exactly the case. Our excitement to build freeways in the 1950’s and beyond led us to build far more highway and road infrastructure than we...