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Eastern Market DC's 150th anniversary last weekend | And my never realized master plan for the market

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

In 2005, I served on the advisory committee for the International Public Markets Conference which covered both DC and Baltimore that year, led a tour, etc. I stepped down when we moved to Salt Lake in late 2019, although I thought at the time somehow I'd be maintaining residences in both places. Master Plan contract, 2019.

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Metrorail Silver Line phase two opening this week

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

It fell into the same trap ," Washington Post ), reminds me that some of my earliest substantive blog writings concern WMATA and the Silver Line. The centrality of the center city as the foundation of the transit network is changing. == Improvements recommended in the original Silver Line program blog entry Overarching recommendations : 1.

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The Road Not Taken | a response to a letter to the editor in the Washington Post about DC, traffic deaths and traffic safety

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

So a blog entry is better. Since 2005 or 2006 I have been recommending that the city create Traffic Management Districts as a way to coordinate transportation management and improvements at the commercial district scale (e.g. There's a letter to the editor in yesterday's Washington Post , " D.C. must step up on road deaths."