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Demystifying ADA for Renovations and Redevelopment

The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) is a scary beast for many folks that have to interact with it. Architects, developers, and...

Apr 24, 2023

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Demystifying ADA for Renovations and Redevelopment

Zoning Past The City of Atlanta is exploring new ways to define and limit how properties are developed as part of the ongoing zoning...

Mar 9, 2023

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Thoughts on Zoning Strings

While single family only zoning still dominates land use patterns in most places, there are often overlooked and underutilized ways to...

Feb 3, 2023

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Creative Single-Family Infill

The City of Atlanta’s zoning rewrite is going to be a long slog. That’s why it’s not the right place to focus immediate efforts for folks...

Mar 13, 2023

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Let's Keep Quick Fixing!

In our previous post, we discussed powerful strategies to creatively expand housing choice in ‘single-family’ districts. These are...

Feb 24, 2023

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Power Plexes

The need for attainable housing is the challenge of our time. The current human ecosystem is failing Americans, and updated approaches...

Jan 30, 2023

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Attainable Housing Now

Nov 19, 2015
9 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...

Sep 2, 2015
1 min

LISTEN: Eric Kronberg Interviewed on Atlanta’s Business

Over the weekend Eric Kronberg sat down with Jeff Davis, host of 1160 AM’s Atlanta’s Business, to discuss how parking regulations effect...

Aug 27, 2015
1 min

WATCH: ERIC KRONBERG DISCUSSES PLACEMAKING @ CNU ATLANTA T3

Last Thursday KWA hosted the August T3 (Third Thirsty Thursday) at our office in Reynoldstown. Speaking from the choir stage, Eric...

Jul 7, 2015
13 min

Read: Richard Willson, “Case against Minimum Parking Requirements”

In a recent post, we referenced Richard Willson’s book Parking Reform Made Easy, specifically the second chapter, “Case against Minimum...

Jun 25, 2015
3 min

The Pope Agrees: Parking is Killing our Cities

We talk about parking a lot, which is a bit weird for architects. Most visitors to this blog would expect to find posts about awesome...

May 5, 2015
1 min

VIDEO: PLACEMAKING V. PARKING

In case you missed it… Check out a video of Eric’s presentation on Placemaking v. Parking, given at CNU’s T3 Event on April 16th. Special...

Apr 27, 2015
2 min

SMALL HOUSES NEED LOVE TOO

A major part of maintaining and promoting healthy communities is finding ways to maximize the existing housing stock. Many neighborhoods...

Apr 23, 2015
4 min

PLACEMAKING v. PARKING (PART 2): NEW ORLEANS AND ATLANTA

As an office based in Atlanta, we’ve often daydreamed about what we could build, if only we weren’t so preoccupied with parking...

Apr 20, 2015
2 min

PLACEMAKING v. PARKING (PART 1): PERCEPTIONS AND EXPECTATIONS

There are significant differences in the built environment of our neighborhoods planned before World War II, and those developed after. ...

Apr 1, 2015
5 min

LET’S TALK ABOUT PARKING (PART 2)

How does a neighborhood node like Candler Park manage to function with such a greatly reduced amount of parking below the legal...

Mar 23, 2015
2 min

LET’S TALK ABOUT PARKING (PART 1)

As a firm that solves redevelopment challenges on a daily basis, we have had time to reflect on one of the repeated biggest redevelopment...

Nov 12, 2014
1 min

NONPROFITS: DESIGNING FOR SOCIAL CHANGE

As communities change and evolve, gentrification becomes a challenge and we have found that committing our resources in the service of...