High Schoolers Propose Design Fixes for Neighborhood

Writer Beth Dunlop says the students' proposals range from the predictable to the imaginative, including "...suggestions for lacing the street with delicate shade houses or transforming the stretch into 'a day at the beach.''

In almost every case -- whether the plan fell on the pragmatic side or the more poetic -- there was a good baseline understanding of what could be done fueled by something our cities need more of: youthful idealism."