In 1958, the year the Kensington Expressway opened, the beautiful and desirable neighborhoods it plowed through were instantly blighted, most noticeab ...

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In Oregon, a battle raged for nearly twenty years over the construction of a highway project known as the Mt. Hood Freeway. If approved, the Freeway w ...

Items pertaining to the AIA Buffalo Urban Design Committee (UDC) code-reform project (attended by representatives from AIA, City of Buffalo OSP, NMG,  ...

Articles, presentations, and case studies relating to the NMG SmartCode Project. ...

This is the entire SmartCode & Manual, version 9.2. The base SmartCode is shorter and simpler than Version 8. Sections that were rarely used have been ...

This project contains information about NMG's SmartCode Conference, including videos, a summary sheet, fact sheet, FAQ, and sample code. Also, you may ...

Information about the SmartCode Workshop, March 2006, in Biloxi, MS. ...

This is the entire SmartCode & Manual, version 8. The document is downloadable in sections. (To download all at once, click 'Check all' and then click ...

Our vision is to creat a compact, walkable urban village, adjacent to a linear park system with access for all.

This form of development has create ...

Dr. Christian Menn has unveiled his concept for a world-class signature bridge to connect the two great nations of Canada and the United States.

M ...

Direct connections to Niagara Street, a fully restored Ft. Porter and Olmsted's Front Park, and removal of thruway on/off ramps from Porter Avenue are ...

For this project to have any value for Buffalo, it needs to be a catalyst for rising property values. It can do no harm and it must do good.

A Gate ...

Shared Border Management was a breakthrough. It could enable Peace Bridge capacity expansion while at the same time improving the Peace Bridge neighbo ...

The Bluewater Bridge in Port Huron is similar to the Peace Bridge. In the late 90's a twinspan was constructed -- ostensibly to relieve the backups. T ...

NMG crusaded against a steel twinspan. Our rationale was both aesthetic and pragmatic. The International Gateway is most valuable as a tourism gateway ...

Peter Hedlund developed a rationale and plan for restoring all of Front Park, Fort Porter and Porter Avenue in his inspiring Master's Thesis in August ...

This is part 2 of the New Millennium Group presentation summarizing why we know that a better Peace Bridge expansion project is not only "doable& ...

The New Millennium Group prompted the creation of the Public Consensus Review Process that was funded by Erie County, the City of Buffalo, the Margare ...

For years the Public Bridge Authority has held public meetings where we have felt ultimately ignored. Time and again they ask us "what do you wan ...

NMG's opposition to a casino in Downtown Buffalo is based on many of the same concerns, as reported in the News, expressed by members of the Buffalo P ...

This Vision was first presented to the DOT and the community coalition in October 2002. Since then, most of the concepts in this document have been ad ...

The City of Buffalo has prepared this Expanded Project Proposal to document a study that identifies feasible highway alternatives, streetscape and tra ...

Several meetings have been held to review the status of the Scajaquada Corridor Project, including representatives from DOT, GBNRTC, The Buffalo Olmst ...

The presentation at this meeting was the end-result of the design charrette conducted the previous summer, and notably included many ideas from NMG's  ...

As a research tool for restoration of Delaware Park and Scajaquada Parkway, NMG constructed a superimposition of aerial surveys from years 1927 & 1995 ...

Walk Buffalo is a wonderful way for both visitors and native Western New Yorkers of all backgrounds to learn about the rich history and architecture t ...

In July 2003, members of the TAG organized a sartorial send-up entitled 'Park Buffalo' to focus public attention on the massive physical, social, and  ...