Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 19, 2023

DC's planning function and capacity has diminished with each mayor since Anthony Williams left office in 2006. Faculty creating a cluster, having bright children in schools, supporting community institutions, etc., I find DC's planning around higher education to be pretty disappointing. But that's not a unique failing.

Economic Development 52

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 1, 2024

Many years ago Leimert Park in Los Angeles was featured in the Washington Post as a black-business district (" Los Angeles's Black Pride: Taking In the Retro Vibe of Leimert Park ," places , 2006). But even before that I went back and forth on it. I visited it back then and wasn't impressed.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 18, 2024

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."

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