Founding Principal with Dover, Kohl & Partners Town Planning presented a live and recorded session with LandscapeWebinars.org on February 13th, the webinar is now available OnDemand.

Titled "Good Street Design Principles," Dover gave examples from around the world of various styles of pedestrian first streetscapes.



Dover utilized practical locations to better explain design styles like adaptable street designs, locational awareness, context, and curb appeal.

While earning LA/CES HSW, APLD, PGMS, and NALP CEUs attendees will be able to develop spaces that are not only the hallmark of streets, but memorable. Questions at the end of the session showed that professionals are looking for street designs that can be adapted to American sites.

 

Click here to receive the recording link and to learn more: https://landscapewebinars.org/landscape-webinars/webinar/good-street-design-principles



Webinar Description:
American cities are in a period of rapid change, and greater focus is needed to make them livable, convenient, beautiful, enduring, and environmentally responsible.

This moves urban design to the center of decision-making for both private investors and public leaders, and it requires strategic rethinking of the dominance of automobiles in our daily lives.

This talk will explore new thinking about street design, including the latest illustrated catalog of Essential Street Types and "Ten Ingredients for Car-Optional Neighborhoods."



Learning Objectives:
1) To articulate core principles of good street design, including the direct impact of the physical environment on safety, quality of life, and fitness of the ecosystem, and the importance of good street design to mixed-use development, walkability, and the restoration of existing urban centers and towns.
2) To define a context-sensitive approach to urban design and policy interventions, including a description of Five Basic Characteristics of people-friendly streets and Ten Ingredients for Car-Optional Neighborhoods.
3) To explore historical and cultural legacies that influence urbanism and design practices, informed by both past experiences and emerging knowledge.



Victor Dover is Founding Principal at Dover Kohl & Partners Town Planning in Coral Gables, Florida. The firm's practice focuses on the creation and restoration of real neighborhoods as the basis for sound communities. Victor lectures widely around the world on the topics of livable communities and sustainable development and is the co-author of Street Design: The Secret to Great Cities & Towns, the leading textbook on the subject (Wiley, 2014; Second Edition, 2025). Victor Dover and Joseph Kohl have both been awarded the John Nolen Medal for Contributions to Urbanism, and more recently were named the 2024 recipients of the Seaside Prize. Victor is a Fellow of both the American Institute of Certified Planners and the Congress for the New Urbanism.