Uber: criminal?
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
JULY 14, 2022
Before the rise of the app you had to know who was the taxi provider in every city and contact them to get a ride, unless you hailed a cab on the street or went to a taxi stand.
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Purple Line Corridor Coalition study: Same Old, Same Old | Gentrification will result from investment in transit infrastructure
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
SEPTEMBER 29, 2022
The group organized in 2013 to try to prevent the kind of displacement that has traditionally followed many Metro stations and new transit lines across the country. The study came from the public-private Purple Line Corridor Coalition, a group composed of government officials, community activists, nonprofits, companies and academics.
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Master planning for solid waste | Creating a VV equivalent for solid waste management and service operating at the metropolitan scale
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
AUGUST 11, 2022
One of my points about master planning is that for functional areas: transportation; parks and recreation; culture; etc., But they aren't organized into an overarching association, in a manner comparable to how Germany organizes regional transport associations to coordinate the planning and delivery of transit services.
DC's 11th Street Bridge Park project
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
AUGUST 4, 2022
And these days the US Secretary of Transportation is pushing this as an environmental justice measure (" Pete Buttigieg launches $1B pilot to build racial equity in America's roads ," NPR). The Bridges now. What's proposed, rendering with the park in place. " It's next to a freeway.
Big data/Machine Learning/AI as a policy savior
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
DECEMBER 29, 2022
TPAPs should be implemented at multiple scales: (1) neighborhood/district/city/county wide as part of a master plan; (2) within functional elements of a master plan such as transportation, housing, or economic development; and (3) within a specific project (e.g.,
Florida's Brightline passenger rail as an opportunity to rearticulate and extend transit service in cities like Orlando
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
MARCH 20, 2023
The first proposes a "transport association" based on the German VV model, where all the local transit providers commit to integrated service, and a common schedule and fare system. They started planning in 2012, construction in 2014, and opened the first stations in South Florida in 2018. Lots of deaths.
Revisiting the 11th Street Bridge Park project as an opportunity rather than a folly: a new revitalization agenda for East of the River, DC
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
MARCH 1, 2024
Out of region visitors spend on lodging, food, and transportation. Also see " A National Mall-focused heritage (replica) streetcar service to serve visitors is a way bigger idea than a parking garage under the Mall ," 2013. An important distinction they make is between in region and out of region visitation. That's not a lot of money.
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