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Tag: City Planning

  • Highway overpass at Interstate 526 in Daniel Island, with concrete pillars and beams, trees along a landscaped roadside, and a bright blue sky.

    May 27, 2025
    Charleston built I-526 in pieces, abandoned its long-debated extension, and is now rebuilding the highway that reshaped Daniel Island, Wando,…
  • October 28, 2022
    Compare walkable neighborhoods in Charleston with local insight, maps, live listings, and practical tradeoffs for buyers choosing where to live.
  • Large homes positioned close together along the seawall of The Battery with palmetto trees and other greenery around them. The view is from the small beach in front of The Battery with a small bit of water that is lightly reflecting the homes above it.

    June 28, 2022
    Explore homes along Charleston’s Battery, from East Battery and White Point Garden to the Low Battery, including architecture, views, history,…
  • An upward view of one tower of the Ravenel Bridge with lights shining on the tower and cables against a dark blue sky.

    June 8, 2022
    Charleston's bridges do more than move traffic from one peninsula or island to another – they shape commuting patterns, development…
  • An artist's rendering of the proposed Gateway Walk Park and Liberty Center, a bricked walkway with outdoor cafe and people walking among many native plantings and trees

    September 1, 2021
    See how a 2021 proposal to activate Liberty Center at 151 Meeting Street evolved into American Gardens and a new…
  • The Goose Creek Reservoir at sunset

    June 8, 2021
    A look at Goose Creek’s walkability plan, updated with Central Creek, Red Bank, zoning changes, and what buyers should watch…
  • April 22, 2020
    How Coleman Boulevard became Mount Pleasant’s main-street experiment, from Old Village history to streetscaping, stormwater, pushback, and suburban retrofit.
  • Satellite image of Hurricane Hugo making landfall at Charleston in September 1989

    September 18, 2019
    Thirty years after Hurricane Hugo, a look back at the storm that reshaped Charleston’s relationship with hurricanes, building standards, flood…
  • People enjoying Second Sunday on King Street

    March 7, 2018
    Would it be feasible and beneficial to extend the pedestrian-first concept of Second Sunday to every day?
  • June 28, 2016
    A look at the proposed Lorelei development on Laurel Island, comparing Atlantic Station with Charleston’s scale, architecture and waterfront.
  • Huger Street Streetscaping Arial View

    February 11, 2015
    Marking the boundary between historic Charleston and the Upper Peninsula district, Huger Street has served as a secondary roadway connecting Morrison…
  • An artist rendering of the proposed Lowcountry Lowline, showing a paved path beneath a freeway overpass bordered by plantings and lights, with a man on a bicycle with a dog

    November 10, 2013
    A transformative project through the center of the peninsula of Downtown Charleston is in the works – a linear park…