Jefferson Park Archives - Ryan Richter, AICP

Planning for People: A Step Back in History

ByRyan Richter March 9, 2015

I would like to follow-up on my Planning for People in Jefferson Park post and expand a bit on what it means to “plan for people”. For at least the past 60 years, the architecture, planning and engineering professions have fundamentally changed the way they designed cities. Cities, a creation of the human race for…

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Planning for People in Jefferson Park

ByRyan Richter February 10, 2015

If you plan cities for cars & traffic you get cars & #traffic. If you plan for people & places…via @PPS_Placemaking pic.twitter.com/MxYvlTS9fS — TODERIAN UrbanWORKS (TUW) (@TODUrbanWORKS) July 9, 2014 Recently there has been a surge of planning work being done in my neighborhood, the once sleepy corner of the northwest side of Chicago…