Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 27, 2024

From the article: Administration officials see the influx of workers as an economic boost and part of a broader effort to scale up critical health infrastructure in a place where life expectancy and health outcomes lag behind neighborhoods to the west.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

This is in response to this Washington Post article, " Purple Line study: Without help, light-rail line will bring gentrification." Poster board from the 2014 meetings. Communities most at risk include Long Branch, Langley Park and Riverdale Park, study leaders said. CDC,s can be such a tool.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 12, 2023

In turn that would help to spur development of the Pepco power plant site, which stopped producing electricity in 2012, and Benning Road further east, and Minnesota Avenue. DC is at a disadvantage too, because unlike other jurisdictions, Congress forbids it from taxing non-residents. Other areas too.)

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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. NYC sponsors(ed?)

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 20, 2023

They started planning in 2012, construction in 2014, and opened the first stations in South Florida in 2018. To ride is expensive compared to the regional commuter rail in South Florida and Brightline has had serious problems with crashes with vehicles and pedestrians. Lots of deaths. But it's quite impressive in two ways.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 1, 2024

But even before that I went back and forth on it. DC invests, half heartedly in people, not in place. Social urbanism and equity planning aim to do this with a wide range of civic investments, from better transit and urban design, to new schools, libraries, and parks.

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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. Proposed Gatineau-Ottawa transit loop.

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