Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
DECEMBER 19, 2023
My solution: Step 1: creating a regional transport association. is why I've argued that the DC area should adopt the German form of regional transport association (called a VV, Verkehrsverbund), which links planning, budgeting and operation into one overarching organization, even if many different entities provide actual transit service.
Human Transit
JANUARY 27, 2022
My friend Professor Juan Carlos Muñoz Abogabir is Chile’s new Minister of Transport. He is a Bus Rapid Transit expert and an eloquent advocate for sustainable and just transport planning, and is also one of the nicest people I know. And it has the perfect transport leader for the moment.
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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
JUNE 15, 2023
The Philadelphia Inquirer has an article on the latter, " Philly’s indoor pools have become ‘a travesty’ after decades of disrepair and neglect ," about how 11 of 12 public indoor pools are closed because of facility failure--from 2004 to 2019.
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
NOVEMBER 20, 2023
You can never stop (" MAIN STREET NICHES IN A MASS SALES WORLD ," Neil Peirce, 2004). But transportation is the biggest issue, better connections making it easier for people to go to other nearby districts, some of which (as I wrote about in the Eastern Market piece ) are more carefully managed to be constantly "on."
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
MARCH 21, 2024
The Walking City urban form is the "urban technology" that supports active cities (" Transportation and Urban Form: Stages in the Spatial Evolution of the American Metropolis" ," " Department stores are an "urban technology" built for walking not driving ," 2024). and Baltimore metropolitan areas ," Transport Policy , 2014.
Community and Economic Development Program of UNC
JUNE 10, 2022
Research has shown it is common for SNAP participants to need help in applying, whether through government social services offices or external sources such as social workers, food banks, and non-profit organizations (Bartlett 2004). But which specific aspects of the application process present a barrier?
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
OCTOBER 7, 2022
It had been happening for decades (" Having a Longer View on Downtown Living ," Eugenie Birch, University of Pennsylvania, 2002; Get Urban!: The University of Pennsylvania funded a school in the Center City, in order to stabilize the neighborhoods around the campus, to attract as new residents people with choice.
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