Tags: urban design + planning

Reflections from Greenbuild 2024

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Marc Mondor, AIA, LEED Fellow, attended Greenbuild 2024 and shares key takeaways to highlight where sustainable architecture is heading.

Year In Review 2024

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2024 was a year of growth and change for evolveEA.

Transit Oriented Food

We are excited to welcome a record-breaking Rail~Volution crowd to Pittsburgh this month! As such, we will be using the conference’s hashtag to invite our friends from out of town to take local transit to food and drink spots all around the city.

Greenways for Pittsburgh 2.0

In 2017, evolveEA led a refresh of the Greenways for Pittsburgh plan first developed in 1980. Through extensive research, community engagement, a review of existing greenway programs, and a series of workshops with various City Departments, the team developed a policy guide with recommendations to improve policies around the stewardship, design, development, and management of greenways in the City.

Mapping the City of Buffalo’s Urban Forest

Lidar is a technique using light radar as to locate and map points in 3D. Lidar is not a new tool, but it’s application in urban design has been quickly expanding. In conjunction with Lidar, the use of Photogrammetry has also emerged as an accessible means of generating high-resolution models for recoding and analyzing our environment.

Allegheny Together

Through the Allegheny Together program, evolveEA provides strategic planning and technical support for business districts in Allegheny County.

Living Waters of Larimer

Living Waters of Larimer is a community development project that demonstrates how green infrastructure can be integrated into the urban spaces, cultural life, and economic infrastructure of a community.