Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 18, 2024

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. for Downtown, H Street NE, Capitol Hill, etc.). And they never functioned the way I suggested (e.g., Vision Zero. The issues are unchanging.

Transportation 52

Transportation 2010 2019 2014 52

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MARCH 23, 2023

On February 28th, 2023, Mark Willis, the NYU Furman Center’s Senior Policy Fellow, testified at a City Council Oversight Hearing on Residential Conversions of Office Buildings. The City has traditionally made that allocation by providing some property tax relief in exchange for developers building and operating affordable housing.

Housing 67

Housing 2006 Article Development 67

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Many shifted to take out operations. Restaurants are still closing in 2023. But hands down, the easiest bread to bake comes from the recipes by Jim Lahey of the Sullivan Street Bakery in New York City, first popularized by an article in the New York Times in 2006 --although it took me til 2020 to finally start baking it regularly.

Magazine 52

Magazine Books Campaign Grassroots 52

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MARCH 4, 2024

The private persona of a GSE is that it is owned and capitalized by the private sector and operated as a for-profit company. Additionally, the GSEs did not commercially operate like efficient and competitive business organizations. However, F&F launched a major lobbying effort and successfully defeated the legislation in Congress.

2008 79

2008 Legislation Housing 2004 79

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 1, 2024

To its credit the Bridge Park has helped develop a land trust, but I don't see it doing that much (" Scattered site buying of houses in high cost neighborhoods doesn't seem to be a good way to develop scale for a community land trust ," 2023). -- Douglass Community Land Trust The fourth is using the bridge to leverage arts and culture.

Parks And Recreation 52

Parks And Recreation 2014 Education Development 52