Chan Krieger Sieniewicz provides communities with powerful tools to design or revitalize urban streets. Long intended for expediting vehicle passage through our communities, city streets are once again being thought of as multipurpose components of an overall civic realm, worthy of design thinking that befits their broader role. Equally important to travelers on foot, bicycle, car or using public transit, street characteristics contribute directly to the economies, aesthetic character, open space systems, and safety within our cities. Urban corridors are powerful components of infrastructure. Beyond contributing to overall mobility, their impact on immediate contexts can be either beneficial or damaging, depending on whether they serve to connect or divide, enliven or weaken.

Our approach to master planning new districts sets the stage for great streets to develop over time. We have completed numerous projects in which the development of design guidelines and revisions to zoning ordinances gave older towns and cities new standards and mechanisms with which to control future change and growth. Perhaps most proudly, we have helped several major U.S. cities break political stalemates regarding the future role-and thus the scale, design, and development potential-of a primary downtown corridor. We take collaborative approaches to these projects, working with transportation and economic development specialists in examining many possible futures and landscape consultants in designing sustainable streetscapes.