Following up on last month’s guest column by Ebenezer Scrooge, Tiny Tim tells us what planners can do to anticipate and mitigate changes in the retail sector.
Read MoreCarlisle/Wortman’s guest columnist, Ebenezer Scrooge, brings you the ghost of Christmas future, at least as it applies to the retail sector.
Read MoreA powerful anecdote puts a face on the dilemma of aging in a community designed around cars.
Read MoreWhere there’s a will there’s a way, for Center Line, an inner ring suburb with a vision for its downtown.
Read MoreGoogle Street View and Google Maps show us how cities around the world innovate to make streets safe, useful and beautiful for pedestrians.
Read MoreA U.S. Supreme Court decision says that municipalities can’t regulate signs based on their content but location, composition and duration can still apply.
Read MoreWhen it comes to transportation planning, there are some new rules in town.
Read More“The philosophy is that absence of all of those features forces all users of the space … to negotiate passage through the space via eye contact and person to person negotiation.”
Read MoreHow can communities engage busy residents and business owners to vote in local elections, engage in public participation events and discuss and plan for the community’s future?
Read MoreHUD funded 30 projects to help regions and communities plan green infrastructure projects. Their report offers excellent examples and is rich with links to the grantees’ work.
Read MoreShort films will feature 15 businesses on Maple Road in Troy, Michigan February 4-May 15, 2015.
Read MoreCommunities use continuing services agreements with Carlisle/Wortman Associates to save time, access specialists’ knowledge and assure continuity.
Read MoreCarlisle/Wortman Associates created design guidelines to revitalize an older urban corridor, bringing building fronts to the street, encouraging mixed uses and improving all forms of transportation.
Read MoreDriven by an innovative, 2008 master plan, form-based zoning and higher design requirements, the City of Troy has seen $11 million in private economic development investment along its Big Beaver corridor.
Read MoreLocal governments must make themselves desirable places for knowledge workers, and that requires different tools than those with which we once chased smokestacks.
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