Posts about Sustainability

Bend, Don’t Break: Designing for Regenerative Resilience

Another summer is upon us, and as we head into the hottest and longest days of the year, many of us will do everything we can to get out on the water to try and cool off. Growing up in Annapolis, this meant sitting on the public dock, dangling chicken necks in the water and […]

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Optimized Mobility and Safer Streets: Creating Harmony Between Transit Modes

At the recent 2017 APA National Planning Conference in New York City, CallisonRTKL released Urban Shift, a compilation of trends and influencers driving the design and development of modern cities along with key project examples. This post is the third in a series that takes Urban Shift a step further in exploring how urban planners […]

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Exploring the New-Old Landscape

CRTKL’s David Curtis explores recent developments in building repositioning. Urban centers are growing—and quickly. But as people flock to cities, the scarcity of available land is leaving developers at a loss. When there’s no buildable land left, how do we even begin to accommodate the swelling number of city-dwellers? Well, our first step is to […]

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Disrupting the Fundamentals: Changing the Rules of Infrastructure

At the recent 2017 APA National Planning Conference in New York City, CallisonRTKL released Urban Shift, a compilation of trends and influencers driving the design and development of modern cities along with key project examples. This post is the first in a series that takes Urban Shift a step further in exploring how urban planners […]

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Bigger Isn’t Always Better

CRTKL’s Billy Plummer and Alfredo González discuss why big box retailers like Target are opting for smaller format stores in the age of online retail. If you glance at today’s headlines, you might conclude that doomsday is near for retail. The classic American mall is dying. Online retailers are taking over. Corporations are announcing cuts. […]

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