Iowa’s Living Roadways Community Visioning
Winner of an Honor Award from the American Society of Landscape Architecture, 2022
Partnership with the Iowa Department of Transportation, Iowa State University Extension, and Trees Forever
RITLAND+KUIPER Landscape Architects has completed over twenty community enhancement projects through the Iowa Community Visioning Program. This program is a joint venture between the Iowa Department of Transportation, Iowa State University, and Trees Forever. Many of the small community improvement projects we have been involved with have included a public input planning process called Community Visioning that encourages strategic thinking about potential landscape improvements. The central piece of this process is the development of conceptual plans that graphically illustrate the vision of community leaders and volunteers, often including transportation corridor improvements and open space studies. Examples of completed community projects include a park in Fairbanks, a restored firehouse retrofitted into a unique park shelter in Conrad, gateway signage and landscaping on Highway 3 in Shell Rock, and streetscape improvements in Colfax, Shellsburg, and Clermont.
Iowa Living Roadway’s Community Visioning Program in the following communities:
Ackley
Anamosa
Aplington
Balltown
Brooklyn
Calmar
Cascade
Clermont
Colesburg
Colfax
Decorah
Denver
Dysart*
Edgewood
Elma
Forest City
Fredricksburg
Gilbertville
Greene
Hudson
Independence*
Jesup
Lester
Lime Spring
Manson
McGregor
Monona
Monroe
Nashua
New Providence
Oelwein
Ossian
Oxford
Prairie City
Reinbeck
Ringsted
Shell Rock*
Shellsburg
St Ansgar
Toledo
Tripoli
Urbana
Volga
Webster City
Wellsburg
*Denotes a community that we have had the pleasure of working in twice.
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Grime Farm
Marshalltown, Iowa
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Hardin County Courthouse Square
Eldora, Iowa
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West 27th Street Corridor Improvementss
Cedar Falls, Iowa