Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 12, 2023

October 24, 2002. Proposed Gatineau light rail loop to Ottawa to serve museums and the Byward Public Market is another model for intra-district transportation. Giants fans leave the MUNI headed for the park. The San Francisco Giants play the Anaheim Angels in Games 5 of the World Series at Pac Bell Park in San Francisco, Ca.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

1) neighborhood/district/city/county wide as part of a master plan; (2) within functional elements of a master plan such as transportation, housing, or economic development; and (3) within a specific project (e.g., Arguably this could be an element of the transportation post. This entry became very long, so I broke it up.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 22, 2025

Shouldn't an office of "planning" be advocating for the city to do integrated, comprehensive planning at all levels and working to improve how the city and the agency approaches and carries out its work?

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Baltimore Regional Transit Expansion Map, 2002. Caption: see below There is an article a few months ago in the Baltimore Sun , " Maryland transportation officials ask for public comment on potential transit routes from Towson to Baltimore ," that planners are suggesting that Towson be served directly by light rail.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 9, 2023

With regard to the last point, it's something I will be writing about. 11 years is enough time to be able to construct significant infrastructure.

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Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

JUNE 20, 2020

Front-line' workers include those who serve in hospitals, work in care homes, run public transport and deliver essential items. Internationally, the greatest lesson of the previous SARS pandemic (2002-2004) was that international cooperation was the key to reducing its impact. Covid-19 is no different in this respect.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 7, 2022

It had been happening for decades (" Having a Longer View on Downtown Living ," Eugenie Birch, University of Pennsylvania, 2002; Get Urban!: Screenshot, Downtown Pittsburgh Partnership marketing campaign, 2009.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 8, 2025

Transit is abysmal because after the era of the transit city (1890-1920, see " Transportation and Urban Form: Stages in the Spatial Evolution of the American Metropolis ," ) cities have been built to optimize and depend upon the automobile. E.g., Salt Lake City is small and has LR because of the 2002 Olympics. Light rail + bus.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 24, 2023

In fact, light rail here in Salt Lake was spurred by the 2002 Olympics, it's a small system and doesn't go to all the places it should, but it's complemented by a developing commuter rail program, a dinky streetcar line on the south side of Salt Lake and South Salt Lake, and a decent enough bus system.

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