Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
MAY 10, 2024
For example, in a blog entry in 2016, I suggested that such information be provided at the Council District scale and that ward-focused committees address traffic safety and sustainable mobility in concerted ways.
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
APRIL 18, 2024
At the time, my focus was trying to create a shared parking scenario, and to invest in sustainable mobility. Promoting biking, walking, and other sustainable modes is another element of TDM. And they had "parking innovation districts" for awhile, but they were idiosyncratic, not systematic, and had many restrictions.
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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC
DECEMBER 9, 2022
Housing prices have increased far faster than incomes (Miller 2015), making affordable homeownership inaccessible for many aspiring homeowners (Hackett et al. Inclusionary zoning or LIHTC units only provide below-market housing for a fixed period (Miller 2015), and Housing Choice Vouchers become more costly as rents rise.
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
APRIL 11, 2024
And a more expanded concept of the "sustainable mobility dates to 2018 (" Further updates to the Sustainable Mobility Framework "). 15 years ago I first wrote that WMATA needed to rebuild the regional consensus about the value of transit: -- " St. It's about speed versus access. I note that GGW just wrote about this this week.
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
JANUARY 18, 2024
The fact is, except for overly wide avenues, the L'Enfant Plan design for the city and its network of streets and sidewalks prioritizes sustainable modes--walking, biking, and transit. It's amazing how much I've written about this topic, providing guidance for something that could have been great. Ward focused traffic safety programming.
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.
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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