Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Although the NYC Parks Department operates a massive number of restrooms in all five boroughs. And it's often done by business improvement districts and/or parks conservancies. Including some very attractive facilities, including a combination pavilion-restroom structure for a new regional park in Far Rockaway.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

First, Virginia's focus on privatization, which is why the Silver Line was not built by Metro (" Silver Line delays: maybe the real lesson is that contracting out construction to the private sector doesn't always work so well ," 2014). You don't complain about system problems when it opens, but before. Extending the Silver Line to Leesburg.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 21, 2024

Cities cost money to operate. I argue that that section of the Metro operates "monocentrically" while the overall design of the system is polycentric, which doesn't help the city so much--BART is a great example of a polycentric system, although SF doesn't really need it because it has its own rail-based transit system.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MAY 31, 2023

1 My view is that the current way they operate – which varies considerably between the four agencies – would be significantly improved if they all applied three key principles: Do risk-adjusting on a practical and easily implementable basis, very much enabled by today’s information processing capabilities.

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