CNU 22: The Resilient Community is taking place in Buffalo, New York this week from June 4-7 and Dover-Kohl is excited to be a part of it. The annual Congress for the New Urbanism is the leading venue for new urbanist education, collaboration, and networking. CNU members come from around the world to discuss development practices and public policies, learn from recent innovative work, and advance new initiatives to transform our communities.
Dover Kohl Begins Planning for a New District in Oklahoma City
Dover, Kohl & Partners has started working with Humphreys Company to plan Wheeler District. The site is 130 acres and is it located on the south side of the Oklahoma River on Western Avenue just a mile from the center of the city. The charrette is scheduled for July 9 through 16, 2014. More information is available atWheelerDistrict.com. This is a community that will grow over time and become one of Oklahoma City's great urban neighborhoods.
Dover-Kohl Presents in Atlanta at APA 2014
Victor Dover presented online engagement strategies at the APA2014 Conference in Atlanta. They highlighted their work on Seven50, the Plan for Southeast Florida, and a process that involved over one million people.
Dave Biggs from MetroQuest also presented and both Dave’s segment and the entire presentation can be found here: APA 2014
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.
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.
For more information click here
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.
Click HERE for a SNEAK PEEK!
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.
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.
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.