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Equity in Communities: Breaking Down the Barriers
(This blog post was originally published on March 8, 2018. It has since been updated)
Home to over 760,000 people within its consolidated city/county boundaries, Louisville Metro is not only growing but is also becoming more diverse.
As with many …
Keeping Sight of the Big Picture: Urban Planning for a Post-Pandemic World
Four generations of my family live in one neighborhood. Let me break that down for you! My family lives within a half mile of my wife’s parents, and they live within another half mile of our children’s great-grandfather who is …
Safety at the Crossroads: Reducing Multimodal Conflicts Zones
What makes a street great? In the pre-automobile day, many a street was great just by virtue of the fact they were public spaces that all citizens shared equally. Yes, once upon a time, it was actually pedestrians who dominated …
A Genesis Document: City of Brookhaven North Druid Hills Road Corridor Study
Streets are among the most powerful symbols of the public realm. They are the places where we live, work and play. They are our most fundamental shared spaces—a place to walk our dogs, go for a run or chat with …
How Sports Tourism is Impacting Development
Let’s face it, Americans are crazy about sports. We love cheering for our team—whether it’s a professional football team, a college basketball team, or simply our kids giving it their all at Little League. Few would argue that our love …
Looking to 2030: Paving the Way for Automated Vehicles
While advances in automated vehicle technology are rapidly reshaping the world we live in, it is more than likely that fully autonomous vehicles—or cars that are 100 percent self-driving—won’t be commonly available until around 2030. While this long-view timeline is …
Planning Buildings for the Future
Much has been written about autonomous vehicles—also known as driverless vehicles—in terms of their safety benefits and their projected impact on transportation. It is anticipated that these robocars of the future will be available to the public by 2025, and …
The Art of Effective Communication – Right-of-Way Acquisition
On an almost daily basis, someone asks me, “What is right-of-way?” In the context of transportation projects, right-of-way is a term that is used to describe the “right of passage” over another’s parcel of land. During the preliminary engineering phase …
Equity in Communities
Merriam-Webster offers several definitions for the word “equity,” including “the quality of being fair or impartial.” I taught my children the concept of equity from a very early age, with one rather unorthodox teaching approach involving the division of …