Downtowns Plus

Downtowns Plus is a blog on downtown planning and placemaking written by Blake Roberts of Hauge Brueck Associates in Sacramento, California. The blog examines issues that concern downtowns of different sizes and in different settings (rural, suburban, urban), such as planning processes, zoning, urban design, economic development, transportation, and infrastructure. Downtowns Plus incorporates academic research and concepts as a way of framing these issues.