Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 18, 2024

Inadequacies in school transportation planning ," 2022 -- School Walk and Bike Routes: A Guide for Planning and Improving Walk and Bike to School Options for Students -- Safe Routes to School program , Washington State -- City of Tacoma SRTS program , including SRTS Action Plan -- Starkville in Motion A failed job interview with DDOT.

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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 ).

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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.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Plans for a redesign of the State Street commercial corridor in downtown Ann Arbor as presented to the city's Transportation Commission by the Downtown Development Authority and SmithGroup in January 2022. Exhibition Road in London is much better design-wise ( Guardian review , 2012). But I suppose it is a start.

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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. mile distance.

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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. Proposed Gatineau light rail loop to Ottawa to serve museums and the Byward Public Market is another model for intra-district transportation. Other areas too.)

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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 (..)

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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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AUGUST 20, 2021

This is impossible to substantiate, but goods manufactured in a donor country, brought to Haiti by transport from that country and distributed by personnel from the same country would do little to stimulate the Haitian economy. For example, it ranks 170th out of 180 in Transparency International's Corruption Perceptions Index 2020.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 1, 2024

Out of region visitors spend on lodging, food, and transportation. An important distinction they make is between in region and out of region visitation. This extends to other public lands.) But spending by in-region visitors, spending per party--not per person--for in region visitation is $42 per day. That's not a lot of money.

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