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Third St Promenade Map Cases Break Ground
Suisman Urban Design’s proposed map cases for the Third Street Promenade are underway! It is anticipated that work should be complete in a few weeks near mid October. See slideshow of work in progress here
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Colin Marshall interviews Doug Suisman on boulevards
BOULEVARDS PODCAST: Colin Marshall interviews Doug Suisman about Los Angeles, the boulevards, city form, and the upcoming reissue of “Los Angeles Boulevard”
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The Houston Underground
Our specialization in the architecture of walking means we are keenly interested in walking systems that extend above or below traditional street-level and sidewalks and crosswalks. Minneapolis and Calgary have extensive elevated walking systems (Calgary calls theirs the “Plus Fifteen” system, or 15 feet above the sidewalk), and many cities have bits and pieces of…
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Houston – Neighborhood Centers, Inc.
Last October I was lucky enough to participate in the CityLab conference in New York, organized by Bloomberg and the Atlantic, where I met some amazing people involved in making better cities around the world (more on that in another post). One of the people I was particularly privileged to meet was Angela Blanchard, President…
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An Early Icon Turns 50
I can still remember my excitement, as an eight year old kid, when the Phoenix Building opened on Constitution Plaza in downtown Hartford, my hometown. When visitors came to our little provincial capital, we boasted we had the world’s first and only two-sided building (to our young ears it sounded like a wicked trick question…
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Suisman named National Peer by the GSA
General Services Administration program appoints distinguished professionals to advise on Federal projects. Washington, 2009–Doug Suisman has been appointed a National Peer in Urban Design by the General Services Administration. The Design Excellence and the Arts Program is the center for GSA’s advocacy of design quality and artistic expression. It establishes nationwide policies and procedures for…
