Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
FEBRUARY 6, 2023
I noticed an article that Baltimore County, Maryland is on the verge of passing a plastic bag ban. DC did that in 2009. There is an article from Fox45 in Baltimore that states: " Law enforcement expert says liquor stores are hotspots for crime in Baltimore City." increase in violent crimes. In the early 2000s!
The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)
NOVEMBER 7, 2022
First, house prices increased by 57 percent 1 over the nearly nine years from their post-financial crisis bottom (2011 Q2) through the last quarter before the pandemic (2020 Q1). I have found, in a variety of recent articles, the 10 to 15 percent range for housing price declines (i.e.,
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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
APRIL 11, 2024
Louis regional transit planning process as a model for what needs to be done in the DC Metropolitan region " (2009) DC area transit planning and operations is an extreme example of gaps. The concept of a multi-regional and multi-state transit network is outlined in " The meta-regional transit network " (2009). And financing.
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
NOVEMBER 24, 2023
From the article: The past few months have been tough for many passengers using bus stations and curbside spots across the country. Note in my typology on the transit network at multiple scales (" Reprint (with editing): The Meta-Regional Transit Network ," 2009), a commenter had to point out to me that I failed to include buses.
Disaster Planning and Emergency Management
FEBRUARY 8, 2023
A short bibliography of sources that deal with common faults in Turkish R/C construction is appended at the end of this article. Why RC buildings failed in the 2011 Van, Turkey, earthquakes: construction versus design practices. While that cannot be negated, it is less than half of the story. Environmental Geology 57: 307-320.
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
APRIL 18, 2024
The Tribune article asks the question of whether or not the streetcar is contributing to traffic reduction. The journal article " Making Cycling Irresistible ," inspired my own blog entry in 2008, " Ideas for Making Cycling Irresistible in DC." I'd say definitely not, the ridership is abysmal. They had a very sophisticated approach.
Public Policy Blog
JANUARY 3, 2014
Prolific proponent of the networked society Manuel Castells (2011) describes mass media being displaced by mass self-communication (Deluca, Lawson, & Sun, 2012) in altering the communication model from one-to-one to many-to-many. 2011; Aday, et al., Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube Platforms in Brief.
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