Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
MARCH 1, 2023
DC, not being particularly sophisticated politically, was ripe for the picking, and local elected officials welcomed them with open arms. But the elected officials wanted it to happen - - JOBS! miles from our house in Fort Totten, making our area likely the most densely served by Walmart of any other area in the US.
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
NOVEMBER 10, 2022
But then I realized that's an affliction common to most of DC's elected officials, even her opponent David Catania (e.g., his stand on ticketing parents for a child's truancy or absence from school--see " Criminalizing truancy versus creating focused programs to address truant behavior ").
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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
DECEMBER 12, 2023
. -- " Wanted: A comprehensive plan for the "Anacostia River East" corridor ," 2012 -- " Waterfronts/rivers/canals as districts needing special and ongoing "zoning" and environmental review ," 2022 -- " The Anacostia River and considering the bridges as a unit and as a premier element of public art and civic architecture ," 2014 -- " DC has a big "Garden (..)
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
MARCH 30, 2024
In Tampa, the two counties can't figure out how to work together on transit, nor can they build support within their counties ( Voters reject Greenlight Pinellas ," Tampa Bay Times , " My Ride/My Road: Polk County Voters Reject 1-Cent Sales Tax Increase ," Lakeland Ledger, 2014). I don't understand why elected officials can't figure this out.
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
JANUARY 19, 2024
Another DC example is development on the site of the Takoma Metrorail station (" The Takoma Metro Development Proposal and its illustration of gaps in planning and participation processes ," 2014). This has been going on since 2000, and finally a better project, albeit ugly as sin, is going forward. commitment and time.
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
NOVEMBER 28, 2023
Which ought to be a lesson to police departments and elected officials deal with policing and problems and disorder in their communities. In his second autobiography, The Profession: A Memoir of Policing in America, Bratton discusses interviewing for the New York Transit police chief job (which was the stepping stone to commissioner).
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