My new favorite tree from one of my projects. Planted 2015.
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@slimwhitman81
Dedicated to designing and promoting a healthier, smarter and more valuable public realm. Street trees are a key ingredient in reaching that goal.
Joined September 2014
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We ban native milkweed, but allow invasive ornamental pear. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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I would vote to change this in a minute, as has been recommended by our city's Legacy of Greenery Committee. #OPKS kcur.org/news/2023-04-1
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Any community without a parking problem, has a problem. Successful, desirable places have a parking problem that is never solvable. This problem benefits transit.
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What do we know about street trees? They enhance by:
*making streets more walkable and bike-able
*providing relief from heat and humidity
*lowering the average electricity bills of surrounding households
*lowering average driver speed and making roads safer
#safestreets
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The best streets have single species trees along them. Diversity should come at the neighborhood scale.
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Google "beautiful tree-lined street" and what do you see? Yet, in many cities you aren't allowed to plant two of the same tree in a row due to a misunderstanding of what constitutes a healthy diversity. More info in today's @CithMonitorAI article: citymonitor.ai/infrastructure
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The Breck’s catalog is proposing a new name for this milkweed. Is this going to be it’s new common name?
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This pleasant 1930 duplex is quietly tucked in the middle of an otherwise exclusively single family neighborhood in Overland Park. An example of good affordable housing that adds value to the neighborhood.
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Which neighboring street likely has higher property values, cooler summer temperatures, lower AC bills, better sociability and more reinvestment?
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"The automobile has dissolved the living tissue of the city. Its appetite for space is absolutely insatiable; moving & parked, it devours urban land, leaving buildings as mere islands of habitable space in a sea of dangerous & ugly traffic." —James Marston Fitch, NY Times, 1960
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Walkability is good. Density is good. Density without walkability is bad.
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"Duplex" shouldn't be a bad word. They can be wonderful additions to any neighborhood.
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It is great to see how serious Bentonville has gotten about bike infrastructure.
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Someone thought hacking away at the tree trunk was the best way to level a tree grate. It's not.
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The Duke Townhomes (formerly Marquis Homes) are a new collection of homes in Alexandria, VA.
Designed by Architectural Design Group & developed by Van Metre, these fine grained, human scaled buildings are some of the best structures we can build for walkable, sustainable cities!
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What we need in this world are more #trees. Lots more.
Trees lower crime, lower water consumption, lower electricity consumption, make streets last longer, lower traffic speeds, improve climate resiliency. Here's how...
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If your town or city is ever looking for a way to quickly & cheaply become more beautiful, you can hardly go wrong with planting a lot of street trees!
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The engineer says "sorry, no street trees because the standard sidewalk width must be met." Be creative to build a city worth loving.
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What city has a director of civic investment, design and placemaking that has used this role to great success?
Buena Vista is a wonderful place to visit.
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The unique Colorado mountain community has had its difficulties, including an attack from an online magazine, but the latest recognition highlights how much the designers and developers have gotten right. cnu.org/publicsquare/2
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I don’t want to see another sharrow or unprotected bike lane in JOCO. The new infrastructure in downtown Olathe should be the standard.
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Millions of Americans say they don't want density, but what if the density looked like this? And these aren't complex buildings; just boxes with regular windows. So let's be clear: objections to density are often objections to ugly, but ugliness has no power in open debate.
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We act like we are just now realizing that cars are destructive to our cities. This 1969 prime time CBS program tells the same story: youtube.com/watch?v=s3GW3A
This is what 'getting serious about cycling infrastructure in our community' can look like.
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Cities are for people and the infrastructure allocations should reflect that.
Wide, continuous sidewalks, bike priority streets where cars can exist for some people, but are tightly controlled through design details.
Last, but not least, nature. 
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Just another day watching a landscaper plant trees. See any problems here?
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That feeling you get when you realize that cities routinely spend millions of dollars on transportation without performing even 3rd-grade-level math on whether it's a good investment.
I said this "improvement" was absurd, and they said, "prove it."
Okay
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We need the north loop land to become an iconic development generator like a first rate park.
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A reminder why we don't need more "development land" if we remove the north loop. We need the north loop land to become an iconic development generator like a first rate park.
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As the downtown loop in Kansas City turns 50 this year, let's not forget how it turned a vibrant neighborhood into a parking lot. Yellow shows surface parking lots, while green are garages.
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