Category : Community & Regional Planning

Community Planning – Seeing Through The Lens of GIS

2019 Community & Regional Planning, GIS, Landscape Architecture, Parks & Recreation, Sustainability, Technology, Uncategorized, Water Trails

GIS, also known as Geographic Information Systems, is a software platform bringing understanding to our projects. This platform provides a variety of tools to perform data manipulation. For us at RDG, GIS is a foundational tool utilized in all ofour community and regional planning work. From topography and flood zones to home value and travel times, this technology is primarily used to track wherepublic facilities are located and allows us to better understandcommunities.…

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What Preservation Means to RDG

2019 Community & Regional Planning, Preservation, Restoration

For RDG, preservation means finding and expressing meaning through new approaches to maintain historic buildings and districts for future generations. We work in this field to contribute to society, because we believe society is enhanced by carrying forward physical representations of our past.…

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Designing a Revitalized Community

2019 Community & Regional Planning, Parks & Recreation, Restoration

A community isn’t magically revitalized by spiffing up a building or two. Creative vision, thoughtful planning, and revived key places and structures can impress and energize locals and visitors alike, enhancing pride of place and making further changes seem not just possible, but desirable.…

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When there’s too much and not enough

2018 College & University, Community & Regional Planning

In 2014, St. Cloud State University in St. Cloud, Minnesota had too much, and not enough. Like many institutions of higher education, SCSU found itself with too much aging infrastructure competing for limited deferred maintenance dollars, too much capital wrapped up in facilities that didn’t meet current and future needs, and – maybe surprisingly – just too much real estate.…

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The Missing Middle Housing in the Midwest

2016 Community & Regional Planning

Affordable housing has always been a concern across the country, but multiple factors over the past decade have raised more specific concerns for housing our workforce. The discussion in recent months has expanded to include not just the need for housing, but the type of housing units these particular households need, including rowhouses, duplexes, apartment courts, townhomes, live/work units, and smaller midsized houses.…

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