Remove 2015 Remove 2018 Remove 2021 Remove Sustainability
article thumbnail

Vision Zero initiatives on the decline: Cache County Utah shows another way

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

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.

2014 52
article thumbnail

Revisiting the Community Land Trust: An Academic Literature Review

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

Housing is the highest monthly bill typical Americans face, reaching an average of $1674 a month in 2021. Housing prices have increased far faster than incomes (Miller 2015), making affordable homeownership inaccessible for many aspiring homeowners (Hackett et al. Housing costs and supply are dominating the news at the moment.

2010 91
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

WMATA and MWCOG announce new joint transit initiative | Could a regional "transport association" be on the horizon, or just a transit bailout?

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

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.

article thumbnail

Florida's Brightline passenger rail as an opportunity to rearticulate and extend transit service in cities like Orlando

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

They started planning in 2012, construction in 2014, and opened the first stations in South Florida in 2018. But it's quite impressive in two ways. It's being built relatively quickly. The extension to Orlando is opening later this year.

article thumbnail

The Road Not Taken | a response to a letter to the editor in the Washington Post about DC, traffic deaths and traffic safety

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

cuts speed limit to 20 mph to curb pedestrian deaths: a step forward but not enough | New thoughts on a comprehensive Vision Zero agenda ," 2020 In " Revisiting Vision Zero in DC and NYC " (2021) I made these points: 1. It's amazing how much I've written about this topic, providing guidance for something that could have been great.

article thumbnail

Haiti: has there been progress in disaster reduction since the last big earthquake?

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

The 14 th August 2021 magnitude 7.2 In mid-2021, 40 districts are currently enduring a crisis of food availability, and 130,000 children are suffering from acute malnutrition. million), but in mid-August 2021 only 0.1% Krimgold (eds) 2015. doi: 10.1108/DPM-08-2018-0263 of the population has been vaccinated.

2010 69