Feb 10, 20204 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, 20194 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, 20193 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, 20195 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, 20173 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, 20175 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, 20171 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, 20173 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, 20165 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, 20162 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, 20164 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....
Mar 21, 20161 min
MAIN STREET RENOVATION
Urban redevelopment is our bread and butter at KWA, and we’ve come to understand that attempting to renovate a building built 50-100...
Mar 2, 20162 min
Small Developer Renovation Research
We are big fans of small development here at Kronberg Wall, which means we also understand how difficult it can be. Small, incremental...
Feb 26, 20161 min
Atlanta Zoning Maps
Thanks to Caleb Racicot from TSW and Kyle Kessler from the Center for Civic Innovation we now have access to digital versions of...
Feb 15, 20162 min
ZONING CODES 101: THE TRANSECT
Dallas, TX: can you identify the transect zones visible in this picture? image: wikipedia If you’ve ever driven fifty or miles in any...
Feb 3, 20163 min
Thoughts on our current stormwater management policy
On this rainy February morning we were disappointed to not find the display of dramatic raging stormwater overflow, flooded pathways, and...
Nov 19, 20159 min
Big Picture Zoning Thoughts
The City of Atlanta has engaged consultants to tackle a re-writing of our zoning ordinance. This is a highly political process for any...