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TagWorking from Home: A Story about the Unending Value of Missing Middle Housing
For generations, the “White Elephant” has held a special place in our family. This is the tepidly affectionate name given to an old..
Cheers to the Twenty-Teens! A Note from the Gould Evans Studio for City Design
Hello and Happy New Year!
With 2019 officially ended, the Gould Evans Studio for City Design is excited to share the year’s highlights,..
Westport District Master Plan — Kim Kimbrough
The Westport District Master Plan received the 2019 American Planning Association (APA) Missouri Chapter’s Outstanding Plan Award. The..
Wichita: Places for People Plan — Mary Hunt
The Wichita: Places for People Plan received the 2019 American Planning Association (APA) Kansas Chapter’s Outstanding Plan Award. The..
Meet the Locals Reinvesting in Kansas City Neighborhoods
In October 2018, the Gould Evans planning studio worked with local partners to bring the Incremental Development Alliance to Kansas City..
We’ve Built a City We Can’t Afford
The Making a Great City speaker series, which was designed to advance realistic solutions to our country’s infrastructure crisis, is off..
Let’s Compare and Contrast: Human Scale Patterns
I recently wrote a series of posts on three important patterns of walkable neighborhoods and human scale design – neighborhood streets,..
Human Scale Patterns: Lot Access
Note: This is the third post in a series exploring some simple patterns of human scale neighborhood design. These patterns, which I’ve..
Do the Math with $800 Million
Kansas Citians stepped forward recently to support the city we’ve built. By choosing to raise our property taxes, we are taking on the..
Human Scale Patterns: Neighborhood Streets
I recently began a series exploring some simple patterns of human scale neighborhood design. These patterns, which I have observed in my..