Oct 20, 2017 | Blog, Lean Urbanism
About a year ago, the Project for Lean Urbanism selected Savannah and four other U.S. cities for a pilot project aimed at developing viable plans for neighborhood revitalization. Rather than focusing on large-scale neighborhood interventions, the Project for Lean...
Oct 3, 2017 | Blog, Urbanism
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...
Sep 20, 2017 | Blog, Urbanism
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...
Jul 26, 2017 | Blog, Urbanism
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...
Jul 16, 2017 | Neighborhoods, Urbanism
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...
May 29, 2017 | Blog, Economics, Neighborhoods, Urbanism
Savannah Development and Renewal Authority was delighted to host Dhiru Thadani last week as part of the Savannah Urbanism Series. For those that couldn’t attend, or for those that would like to learn more, here is some information about the redevelopment efforts for...