- Feb 10, 2020
- 4 min
Partners for Better Places
Making places better takes a lot more than great architecture and urban design. Our work over the last decade has expanded beyond...
- Nov 12, 2019
- 4 min
KW Blog Turns Five – A Look Back at Our Favorite Posts
Today marks the five-year anniversary of our very first blog post. To mark the occasion, we took a look back at over 100 posts to select...
- Aug 8, 2019
- 3 min
A Tale of Two Bridges: Infrastructure and Equity
Urbanists in Atlanta and around the country are tearing their hair out after discovering the Northside Drive pedestrian bridge at the...
- Feb 8, 2019
- 5 min
A Tactical Solution for Dekalb Ave
It’s no secret that we are bicycle enthusiasts at KWA; half of our employees are bike commuters, and we also happen to share an office...
- Oct 6, 2017
- 3 min
8 FEATURES THAT MAKE PARSONS ALLEY WORK
We hear that the City of Duluth is enjoying the ongoing revitalization of their historic downtown, which includes KWA’s work at Parsons...
- Sep 21, 2017
- 5 min
La France Walk: Looking Back and Thinking Forward
La France Walk is a new walkable pocket community in the intown Atlanta neighborhood of Edgewood. Learn more at www.lafrancewalk.com or...
- May 16, 2017
- 1 min
Understanding ADA: A Guide for Small Developers
We recently had the pleasure of presenting some of our latest research on the Americans with Disabilities Act at CNU in Seattle. The ADA...
- Feb 23, 2017
- 3 min
Community Engagement 101 for Small Developers
We spend the vast majority of our time at KW working on projects that will make communities better. For us, “better” means more...
- Sep 26, 2016
- 5 min
On Selling Missing Middle Housing to Communities
The Candler Park neighborhood in Atlanta features a popular one-block commercial node surrounded by mostly pre-WWII residential...
- Aug 9, 2016
- 2 min
The good and bad news about walkability
We really enjoyed Kaid Benfield’s latest article on walkability (particularly the part where “Atlanta architect Eric Bethany” was quoted...
- Jul 18, 2016
- 4 min
The Importance of Live/Work
Because we understand how difficult redevelopment can be, we’ve spent a lot of time and brain power researching ways to make it easier....