Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
DECEMBER 5, 2023
To me, a classic failure to do this kind of work to result in significant improvements in civic participation are DC's Advisory Neighborhood Commissions , which get little in the way of help. -- " Setting up DC's Advisory Neighborhood Commissions for success ," 2022 There are 46 bodies, set up to cover part of a Ward.
The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)
NOVEMBER 28, 2023
Historically, the development of new housing in the city has been unevenly spread across neighborhoods, with the lowest-density community districts adding housing at only half the rate of the city overall between 2010 and 2020. “You have to have clear targets and you have to have a strategy.”
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
JANUARY 18, 2024
Years ago I wrote a piece (" Outline for a proposed Ward-focused (DC) Councilmember campaign platform and agenda ," 2015) about what would be an ideal approach to a truly ward-focused Councilmember election and governance platform, including having a dashboard on ward-specific data on traffic safety. Ward focused traffic safety programming.
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