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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
JUNE 19, 2023
The Job Description Is Changing ," New York Times = Other relevant blog entries -- " Reprinting with a slight update, "Arts, culture districts and revitalization" from 2009 " (2019) Cultural quarters and innovation districts -- discussion on the Arabianranta district within " Helsinki as an example of creative industries driving urban revitalization (..)
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
FEBRUARY 4, 2023
Use the monies to fund and expand transit, especially Metrorail within the city as discussed above and in various postings such as " More on Redundancy, engineered resilience, and subway systems: Metrorail failures will increase without adding capacity in the core " (2016). And separating the Yellow and Green Lines too.
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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
AUGUST 11, 2022
In transportation, it means that private parking resources are usually not addressed in parking planning (" Testimony on parking policy in DC ," 2012), private sector operators aren't addressed in planning for various modes. In Greater Salt Lake, governments mostly don't do glass recycling directly.
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
JANUARY 18, 2024
Definitely this is another example of DC government's failure to focus and to be innovative. Government has a bias for inaction. There's a letter to the editor in yesterday's Washington Post , " D.C. must step up on road deaths." It's a good letter. I started writing a response in the comments, but it was too long.
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
AUGUST 9, 2022
the steady employment engine of the federal government Heathcote captures the issues well. " Since I got involved in urban revitalization I argued that DC had five competitive advantages: 1. historic architecture 2. historicity and identity (the nexus of people, historic architecture, and urban design) 4.
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
AUGUST 21, 2022
The project took six years to complete, and the station opened in 2012, with full service in 2013. Union Station railyard with MARC commuter train in the foreground. As part of the redevelopment plan, the U4 line was extended by about 4/10 miles with the addition of the HafenCity University station (the line has since been further extended).
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
MARCH 24, 2023
To me, government is more about denying, saying no. From " Revisiting Vision Zero in DC and NYC ": Government has a bias for inaction*. A key point in the iterative improvement of my writings on Vision Zero is focusing initiatives in terms of the "6 E's" of sustainable mobility planning (" Updating Vision Zero approaches ," 2016).
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