Community-Led Urban Design: Implementing in Sync with Transit Projects

Urban and landscape design offer creative approaches to bringing community vision into transit projects. Learn about ways to do this within the constraints of a typical infrastructure project, which has stringent functional requirements and procurement processes along with pressure for speedy delivery. Several examples from around the country demonstrate success in a variety of settings, urban and suburban. All are based on recognizing how transit corridors shape communities and that each location has a distinct identity to those who live there. See how inventive engagement, design and placemaking can shift perceptions about transit, limit adverse impacts and heal communities – on time and in scope!

Krista Nightengale, Managing Director, Better Block Foundation, Dallas, TX
Klaudia Biala, Senior Associate Architecture and Urban Design, SvN Architects + Planners, Toronto, ON
Jeffrey A Fahs, PLA, ASLA, OALA, LEED AP, Vice President – Director of Landscape Architecture, HDR, Inc., Chicago, IL
Shannon Simms, ASLA, Associate Principal/Landscape Architect, Mayer/Reed, Inc., Portland, OR