Kansas City Planners Bet On A Greener Future
9 April 2001 - 9:00am
Several ongoing developments aim to make Kansas City more livable by revitalizing the city with open space strategies, pedestrian-friendly streetscapes, and a new land-use plan for downtown.
"Kansas City has ridden on its green reputation for a century. It built in the early 1900s what was long considered to be one of the nation's most impressive systems of parks and boulevards, on a plan originally designed by landscape architect George Kessler.Downtown never played a big role as the Kessler plan developed, but the spirit of the plan could be revived in the current push to think green." Several ongoing projects aim to make it a more "livable" city.
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The Kansas City Star, April 7, 2001
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