Safe Streets Summit
Safe Streets Summit is happening on January 26 & 27, 2017. This event will feature Building Blocks for Complete Streets: Tools for better connected, safer streets for all. For more information visit SafeStreetsSummit.org
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Make Way For Bikes
Our team has been working hard on finalizing the Active Design Miami publication which will be the culmination of a year’s worth of work with great partners and collaborators who have helped shape design and policy strategies for a healthier Miami-Dade. While we’ve been busy, our friends and partners at Miami-Dade Transportation & Public Works have been putting ideas …
Tree Hugging
At Active Design Miami (ADM) we love, and we mean LOVE, trees. Walk outdoors on a hot, humid South Florida day and you’ll be begging for the shade of treelined streets and sidewalks. Unfortunately, Miami-Dade’s shade percentage stands at a mere 14 percent, when a healthy urban forest should be 30 percent. This lack of …
Visualizing Active Design
Active Design is NOT something you will find at a fashion designer’s latest runway show. You may be surprised to hear that examples of Active Design are around us every day and in a wide variety of ways; from the buildings we inhabit, to the streets we drive on, and to the parks we play …