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Krista Schneider

Krista L. Schneider is a practicing landscape architect and planner at John Milner Associates, Inc. in Charlottesville, Virginia. Her forthcoming book is entitled Designing History.

The Paris-Lexington Road

The Paris-Lexington Road

Community-Based Planning And Context Sensitive Highway Design

Located in the heart of the Kentucky Bluegrass Region, the "Paris Pike" is a scenic, twelve-mile corridor running between Lexington and Paris. Beginning in 1969, the state of Kentucky sought to widen the road in order to improve safety and capacity. Various objections led to a federal court injunction imposed in 1979 that halted the project for more than fifteen years.