Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
MARCH 6, 2024
A prototype of the 1000-series Metro train on display on the White House Lawn in the 1960s. In 1968, Metro built and displayed prototypes at the White House Lawn, the National Mall, Prince George’s Plaza and L’Enfant Plaza.
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
Our Council member, Kenyatta Johnson, is now also Council president, and he has enormous power to protect affordable housing in his district and beyond.
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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)
AUGUST 4, 2021
In a special issue of Housing Policy Debate on evictions, Ingrid Gould Ellen, Katherine O’Regan, Sophie House, and Ryan Brenner analyze early findings from the NYC Universal Access to Counsel program (UAC). As of 2013, only 1 percent of New York City tenants were represented by lawyers in housing court. Methodology.
Center for Community Progress
FEBRUARY 21, 2023
Even at a time of record low housing supply, vacant and deteriorated properties—referred to by some as “blighted properties,” though the Center for Community Progress and others consider the term harmful and problematic*—exist in every community. See The Empty House Next Door for more information.
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
OCTOBER 19, 2022
alongside affordable housing and commercial space, and adaptable buildings--in how it discusses the primacy of West Seattle as the anchor of the rock music ecosystem in Seattle. From the article: On the surface, a budget-proposing government suit doesn’t exactly scream “rock ’n’ roll.”
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
DECEMBER 12, 2023
Since 2003, when I was on the board of H Street Main Street, and advocating that the group create a housing growth strategy in its retail trade area, I suggested that the RFK parking lots, especially along Benning Road, should be converted to housing and mixed use development. Because downtown D.C. has come back to life.
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
MARCH 26, 2024
My writings on daypart planning (" Planning programming by daypart, month, season: and Boston Winter Garden, DC's Holiday Market, etc. ," 2016) are relevant to parks planning too. Sugar House Park, Salt Lake City. Seasonality. Plan for time of day and day of the week sure. Make accommodations as needed, from lighting to snow clearance.
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