Building a beautiful, durable and sustainable streetscape is a team effort

Urban and suburban streets should be structurally sound and safe for motorists, pedestrians and bicyclists. Ideally, they should also be beautiful.

But many are less than ideal, plagued by broken curbs, potholes and crumbling sidewalks or no sidewalks; dead trees, the wrong trees or no trees; lack of crosswalks; poor street lighting; overhead wires strung between utility poles; and obscured or inadequate signage.

By Roger K. Lewis

Full Story: http://www.washingtonpost.com/realestate/building-a-beautiful-durable-and-sustainable-streetscape-is-a-team-effort/2014/09/18/f4a1a51a-3ad4-11e4-9c9f-ebb47272e40e_story.html?hpid=z17