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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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

The university’s $6 million plan looks good so far, with a fundraising campaign on the way. Exhibition Road in London is much better design-wise ( Guardian review , 2012). Looking at the rendering it doesn't come across as a curbless street at all, at least if a curbless street is defined as being pro-pedestrian.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Screenshot, Downtown Pittsburgh Partnership marketing campaign, 2009. I haven't written about this being discussed in a number of places like DC (" D.C. mayor unveils plans to incentivize office-to-residential conversions as downtown struggles to recover ," Washington Post ) because there is nothing really special about the phenomenon.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 1, 2024

But the district is well organized, and successfully campaigned for a more directly accessible transit station as part of a new line being developed to serve their area. Also see " Leimert Theater: Envisioning a Neighborhood Landmark ," KCET.

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