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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
MAY 13, 2024
When I first saw coverage I thought, "what about the 2017" initiative, although granted it was before covid. WRT bus service improvement see: -- " Making bus service sexy and more equitable ," 2012 -- " Will buses ever be cool? And when thinking about writing about it, I remembered a bus initiative back in 2006 too.
Reprogramming the City
APRIL 1, 2023
This process significantly reduces the volume of waste while also recovering energy from the waste material (European Commission, 2017). This state-of-the-art facility processes over 400,000 tons of waste annually, generating electricity for 550,000 residents and providing district heating for 140,000 households (Copenhill, 2020).
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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. Cool train branding designs though for Tri-Rail. I have five foundational pieces on organizing transit at the regional and multi-state scales.
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
AUGUST 4, 2022
I have discussed undergrounding/decking for North Capitol Street, the Southeast-Southwest Freeway, and parts of Connecticut Avenue in the core. -- " DC and "city repair" of the urban grid ," 2020 Freeway undergrounding and removal is a trendy move in urban planning these days (" Can Removing Highways Fix America's Cities? ," New York Times ).
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
NOVEMBER 14, 2022
But the failures in planning extend beyond DC (" Silver Line Metro expansion a classic example of the need to have true regional transportation planning ," 2011). DC does not understand its "unique selling proposition" or "core competency" is being transit- and sustainable mobility-centric. More network improvements. mile distance.
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
AUGUST 9, 2022
The kinds of initiatives that helped cities revived need to be reassessed and further strengthened and extended and revised for today's circumstances Along these lines, at the beginning of the pandemic, I wrote this piece, " From more space to socially distance to a systematic program for pedestrian districts (Park City (Utah) Main Street Car Free (..)
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
OCTOBER 7, 2022
The University of Pennsylvania funded a school in the Center City, in order to stabilize the neighborhoods around the campus, to attract as new residents people with choice.
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