Siloam Springs Downtown & Connectivity Master Plan

Dover-Kohl has just returned from a week long charrette in Siloam Springs, Arkansas. Team members worked with citizen planners to define a vision for the future of the City. Making downtown more walkable, bikeable and better connected to local destinations was a priority throughout the week. At the interactive kick-off event on Monday, March 31, members of the community identified opportunities and challenges in the downtown. The candid dialogue continued throughout the week in the Open Design Studio. Each person that visited the studio contributed valuable information. 

The charrette concluded with a work-in-progress presentation that demonstrated consensus within the community on strategies for completing road diets that increase on-street parking and sidewalk dining, implementing bicycle infrastructure, and fostering a memorable, livable City.

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East Lansing Charrette Builds on Vision for BRT

Last week, Dover-Kohl participated in a weeklong charrette in East Lansing, MI to develop a plan for Bus-Rapid Transit on the Michigan Avenue / Grand River Avenue corridor. The East Lansing Charrette builds on The Capitol Corridor vision to create a better, more cohesive corridor from the Capitol to Meridian. During the Kick-off and Hands-on Design Session, over 60 community members gathered around tables to create new street sections and draw their thoughts for the area. Throughout the week designers, engineers, and planners continued the work in an open design studio which allowed people to stop by and bring new ideas to the table as well as witness the progress.

The week finished with a Work-in-Progress presentation on Sunday, March 23rd that highlighted the details of the emerging plan. The planning effort is being led by the Capital Area Transportation Authority (CATA), through Mead & Hunt; Dover, Kohl & Partners; Kimley-Horn & Associates; and Cambridge Systematics.

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To see the article in the Lansing State Journal click here

Nestor Arguello from Dover-Kohl on Telemundo

Catch Nestor Arguello from Dover-Kohl and Celeste De Palma from the Tropical Audubon Society on Telemundo Tuesday April 8th at 6pm! 

Dover, Kohl & Partners - Town Planning, the Tropical Audubon Society and the Telemundo crew from @AlertaVerde talk about the importance of preserving the Everglades and stopping sprawl. Focus is on building a sustainable community, building up rather than out to better utilize our resources while safeguarding our natural resources.

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Capitol Corridor Plan Adopted by Tri-County Regional Planning Commision

On Febuary 26, 2014 The Capitol Corridor plan was presented to a formal meeting of the Tri-County Regional Planning Commision that voted to accept the report on the spot. Following a year-long process working under the leadership of the National Charrette Institute (NCI), Dover-Kohl led two 7-8 day charrettes along the Michigan Avenue / Grand River Avenue corridor that provided the opportunity for an in-depth community conversation about the future urban form of the corridor, and produced a consensus-based vision for urban design, land use, transportation, and economic development. 

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Victor Dover as Virtual Keynote Speaker for the University of Iceland

This year Victor Dover will be the "virtual" keynote speaker for Reykjavik Green Days at the University of Iceland. The lecture on "Sustainable Cities and Their Streets" is going to be beamed from a studio in Arkansas onto the big screen at Háskólatorg, with Q&A across five time zones (and no jet-travel carbon footprint). 

This event will take place on Wednesday, April 2 from 6:30pm - 7:30pm in UTC and is organized in collaboration with the Embassy of the United States in Reykjavik. Please note that this is a remote lecture from the United States.

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The Hometown Plan for South Miami, Florida

 

In this new film, Victor Dover, Joe Kohl, Mayor Philip Stoddard and several DKP designers explain the key steps to downtown and main street revitalization based on their own success story. The Hometown Plan for the City of South Miami was initiated over 16 years ago and the plan continues to be actively implemented today. New streetscape improvements and infill buildings have created a walkable, urban downtown.

Click here to watch the video and learn more about The Hometown Plan

Reception, Talk and Book Signing with Victor Dover!

The City of Coral Gables and Books and Books are celebrating the publication of "STREET DESIGN: The Secret to Great Cities and Towns" (Wiley, 2014). The book's co-authors Victor Dover and John Massengale selected streets from Coral Gables, South Miami and Miami Beach to illustrate why good design is crucial. 

Join us Sunday, March 2, 2014 at 3:00 PM at the Coral Gables Museum, Community Meeting Room located at 285 Aragon Avenue, Coral Gables, Florida 33134

Ramon Trias, Director of Planning & Zoning, will make introductory remarks, followed by a short presentation about the book, on sale in the Museum gift shop.

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Victor Dover Continues Street Design Book Tour

Victor Dover and co-author John Massengale have been doing a lot of traveling to talk about their recently released book Street Design: The Secret to Great Cities and Towns. Recent lectures have taken place in Delray Beach, Florida; The University of Texas at San Antonio; CNUFL in Sarasota, Florida; Florida International University in Miami, Florida; and the Savannah College of Art and Design in Savannah, Georgia.

NEW VIDEO: A recording of Victor's lecture at the Savannah College of Art and Design on February 11, 2014 is available online at the SCAD Virtual Lecture Hall

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The Bridge as Public Space: Plan El Paso cited in a recent TEDx talk by Carlos Gallinar

Carlos Gallinar, El Paso’s Deputy Director for City Development and Planning, recently gave a TEDx talk about the healing and humane benefits that could be realized with a true bi-national civic space bridging the border between El Paso and Ciudad Juarez. Such a civic space was envisioned in George Kessler’s historic 1925 City Plan for El Paso. This vision was reinvigorated in Plan El Paso, the update to the City’s Comprehensive Plan produced by Dover, Kohl & Partners, and adopted in 2013.

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