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A small coastal town turned to an old game to engage its community in new solutions.
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County Supervisors approved a data-driven plan to conserve 30% of land and coastal waters by 2030, advance park equity, and restore degraded land, especially in low-income communities.
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A once forlorn park will now reconnect the City with its River and revitalize the downtown.
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MIG’s new Downtown Brooklyn office—co-located with W Architecture and Landscape Architecture—now allows both firms to collectively push the boundaries of innovative, community-based solutions from coast to coast.
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New tradition-shattering campus planning models merge multiple academic levels, research and manufacturing—the results astound.
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How do you bring riders back to transit after a pandemic? A fresh take on an iconic brand promotes Muni transit service improvements for riders across San Francisco neighborhoods.
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Visualization tools let people “see” your planned project before it’s built—turning your community engagement on its head. And like with all technology, the costs might be less than you think.
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Parks are using new technologies to engage with and provide another experiential layer for visitors. It’s educational, it’s fun—and you don’t need to tell kids to put their phones away!
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The merger will deepen and expand services for clients in the Pacific Northwest. MIG | APG, will provide a full range of service, from planning and design to zoning and development codes, for both public and private sector clients.
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We need a new way to measure the “success” of urban planning. We can rethink planning to integrate equity, diversity and inclusion and address the unintended consequences of gentrification. MIG Principal Jay Renkens presented Charlotte North Carolina’s monumental shift in planning.
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A new park and park plan in Westminster promotes racial equity and honors local civil rights leaders.
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Earvin “Magic” Johnson Park is Project of the Year at the Sustainable Innovation Awards. And Santa Monica City Hall East won an award for zero waste.
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Two of 2021’s top websites for urban planning: Burlingame for its easy-to-use, highly informative digital plan and community process; Charlotte for its Virtual Open House
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How can cities plan future growth that’s equitable and thriving? MIG Principal Chris Beynon shares his experience—and plans for Kansas City.
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We see you. We see and value your contributions to our society. MIG stands with the Asian American and Pacific Islander community.
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Jamillah Jordan, leader of MIG's Equity Studio, has been selected for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Culture of Health Leaders program.
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California is rethinking building and transportation—aiming to drive less and protect the environment. SB743 is one of the “hottest” pieces of legislation to come out of Sacramento in quite a while.
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Recent wildfires impact park conservation, equity and health—and point to a need to plan for future extremes
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New York Aquarium’s “Ocean Wonders: Sharks” exhibit highlighted as part of ASLA’s Tools for Teachers program.
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We will not be silent. We will not look away. We will stand together.
MIG stands in solidarity with the Movement for Black Lives. We condemn racism, white supremacy and violence in all its forms. We commit to the active pursuit of racial equity.
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With Phase 1 already underway at the 120-acre Earvin “Magic” Johnson Recreation Area, the County approved funding to bring the AHBE | MIG masterplan closer to reality.
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Few things are as remarkable as the power of the human condition to both shape and be shaped by the world around us.
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The new play area for 3rd-5th grade students merges elements of Hong Kong's traditional culture with exciting climbing play, and won an OPAL award for interior design.
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“Easily read and clearly explained and illustrated, the book should be in the library of every municipal planning department, urban design firm, landscape architecture offices and community organizations promoting healthy living and great human spaces,” the EDRA jury stated.
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Landscape Architecture Foundation released its case study of Yanaguana Garden Play Area in San Antonio, citing quantifiable environmental, social and economic benefits.
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The new plan defines the essence of this Ashland park and won the Award of Excellence for Analysis & Planning from the Oregon ASLA.
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Should public agency workspaces look spartan and cost-effective so no one gets upset about wasting public money? The opposite, said MIG Principal Gary Lai in a think tank discussion.
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In uncovering centuries of history, the report balanced stories from multiple and often conflicting perspectives, posing the critical question: Whose narrative is it?
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This just in! A wealth of independent data, analysis and feedback that we often wish for and rarely get—Seattle’s Hing Hay Park is now a proven success.
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The City’s new Parks and Recreation Master Plan was recognized for innovative techniques and funding solutions, among other attributes.
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A cookie cutter is great for making a lot of equal cookies. But not for providing equitable parks for diverse communities. MIG has some better ideas and Park&Rec magazine features them.
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The Downtown Achievement Pinnacle Award recognizes the most creative and inspiring innovations in urban place management.
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MIG’s landscape architecture team in Portland has won Oregon ASLA’s 2019 Outstanding Firm Award, recognizing design excellence.
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Ocean Wonders: Sharks! at the New York Aquarium received a Top Honors Award from the Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA).
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The Summer 2019 California Park and Recreation Society magazine includes an article by MIG’s Cindy Mendoza and Lauren Schmitt about the new park standard: within a 10-minute walk.
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From Wendy Landman, ED of Walk Boston: “A terrific how-to manual for community activists and municipal staff…to bring streets back to life.”
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MIG Principal Melissa Erikson contributed to first-ever set of international guidelines that consider a broad range of abilities for designing the public realm.
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In this month’s “Landscape Architecture Magazine,” MIG Director of Landscape Architecture Brice Maryman shares an emerging set of “better practices.”
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“This book will be of great value to anyone who ever deals with streets in any capacity.”
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Seattle Neighborhood Greenways (SNG) has awarded its inaugural Community Enhancer Award to the newly redesigned Hing Hay park.
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“Making the world a better place” binds the two firms together.
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How can you create inclusive communities that lift children out of poverty? MIG Equity Studio Director Jamillah Jordan offers insights and catalytic solutions during her recent IDA Master Talk.
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Can your town or city—whether urban or rural, built-out or still developing, park-rich or park-poor—offer all residents the benefits of a park or recreation activity with a 10-minute walk? Absolutely. With a little imagination, collaboration and a fresh new perspective, every city can find opportunities to better connect people to parks.
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The accessible and sustainable beachfront playground in Santa Monica won 2019 Westside Urban Forum Design Award for Public/Open Space for AHBE | MIG.
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A new memorial will honor those lost in a tragic, massive mudslide near Oso Washington, as well as those who survived and the first and community responders.
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The MIG competition proposal won both the Conservation Innovation award and the coveted People’s Choice award for re-envisioning the Jordan River Parkway in Salt Lake County.
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An APA-award-winning project in Utah breaks new urban planning ground with virtual reality.
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The project, in Golden, Colorado, was one of only 16 projects nationwide to receive a Grand Award from the ACEC. All it took was a little magic.
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We’ve designed poor people out of our cities. Ideas for more inclusive designing.
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AHBE Landscape Architects joined urban planning and design firm, MIG, Inc., in 2019, creating MIG’s Los Angeles office.
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The Landscape Architecture Foundation funds studies to quantify why some environments perform better and offer more benefits than others. Yanaguana is one of them.
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MIG Principal Mukul Malhotra stunned the room with passion and poetry at the IDA conference in San Antonio. He spoke about how great cities and great buildings tell the story of place.
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Let’s go the next step beyond travel lanes and bike lanes, sidewalks and crosswalks. Let’s design streets for living, not just driving. Read Part 3 in the series of excerpts from our new book on inclusive design for the public realm.
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New immersive and interactive technologies will bring the U.S. Submarine Force—the “Silent Service”—to life.
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With new CEQA rules, you can take advantage of new opportunities to make better places with more choices for people and reduce the impact on the natural environment.
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Let’s go the next step beyond travel lanes and bike lanes, sidewalks and crosswalks. Let’s design streets for living, not just driving. Read Part 2 in the series of excerpts from our new book on inclusive design for the public realm.
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Let’s go the next step beyond travel lanes and bike lanes, sidewalks and crosswalks. Let’s design streets for living, not just driving. Excerpts from our new book on inclusive design for the public realm.
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Streets Reconsidered: Inclusive Design for the Pubic Realm, by Daniel Iacofano and Mukul Malhotra, shows what streets can offer communities if they are designed for people, along with vehicles. Get a 20% discount!
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What are the next urban trends and transformations? MIG Principal Chris Beynon lays out 10 interconnected, disruptive and exciting mash ups you need to know about.
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Our innovative, weird and amphibious outdoor seating (a bathtub) has won the People’s Choice Award in Portland’s Street Seat Competition. You have to see it to believe it.
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Every year, about 4 million gallons of polluted runoff entered Puget Sound. The County’s innovative solution enhanced the green space and didn’t require any mechanical or electrical systems.
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A new “backyard” at the San José Children’s Discovery Museum brings the joys of nature and the freedom to get dirty to kids in an urban environment.
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Global issues, local stories, real actions: How a zoo exhibition tackled climate change and increased its revenue.
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San Diego-based MJE Marketing and MIG are now MIG | MJE, greatly expanding our marketing, branding, design, advertising, public relations and outreach services in Southern California.
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Innovative grantmaking is helping communities make streets safer and more equitable.
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For communities with struggling commercial corridors and a lack of housing the plan for the City of Duarte’s new town center offers solutions.
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A MIG team interviewed homeless people in parks to better understand how park agencies can help them.
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MIG has created a partnership to launch a specialized web publishing platform...
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We are pleased to announce that The Portico Group (Portico) of Seattle, Washington, has joined MIG.
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MIG Principal Chris Beynon challenged communities and businesses to create inclusive cities that benefit all residents.
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Three times as much parkland, bicycle and pedestrian connections to and through the park and to the River Walk, and a happy community.
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SvR brings an integrated approach to urban design that blurs the boundaries between landscape architecture, civil engineering, planning and applied ecology.
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We are pleased to announce that we have formed an alliance with Entitlement Advisors and Carol McDermott of Newport Beach, California.
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We are excited to announce that MIG | Portico Principal Alissa Rupp has been named a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects – AIA’s highest membership honor.
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For centuries thoughtful observers have recognized that play is integral to both childhood development and adult life.