Landscape Designers and the NBG

Once all the t’s are crossed and i’s dotted, it will be  landscape desingers  who will build the National Bicycle Greenway. These are firms that  design outdoor environments, especially harmonizing parks or gardens  with buildings and roads (examples of their work pictured at left). They are made up of extremely talented individuals, people who have rebuilt decaying parts of  cities, rejuvenated  parks, transformed waterfronts and whole business districts, etc, all over America. It is their work for example, that reinvented Indianapolis. A  dying rust belt city, led by the work of Sasaki Design, as directed by Mr Greenway himself, Ray Irvin, the Indy 500 city is now known as the Greenway Capital of the World.

The giant in the field of landscape architecture is Alta Planning. They have developed research that has led to policy and design standard changes nationally. They also manage the only national data collection center for bike counts and surveys. With well over a hundred planners and designers, at their web site, you can see examples of work they have done in Los Angeles, Oakland, Members, Berkeley, Saint Paul, Seattle, Waterloo, and West Palm Beach, Salt Lake City, etc. Besides Alta Planning, there are many others in this field.  Here are thirty more..