Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 16, 2023

In " Making cycling irresistible in DC 2.0 " (2008) and " Best practice bicycle planning for suburban settings using the action planning method " (2010), I mentioned the need to promote bicycling at the neighborhood scale, to increase biking take up. Too many people think biking is recreational or a joke in terms of sustainable mobility.

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Center for Community Progress

MAY 24, 2022

CRH is the only 501(c)(3) in Puerto Rico dedicated to leveraging vacant and abandoned properties as assets for building sustainable communities. Their specialties include urban planning, public policy, landscape design, permaculture, and sustainable land stewardship advocacy. About the Center for Community Progress.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Casey Anderson, the chair, was someone I met through bike advocacy, and in 2010, as a member of the Planning Board, he invited me to present on " best practice suburban bicycle planning " at the Montgomery County Planning smart growth series, based on the work I was doing at the time in Baltimore County.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 13, 2024

Parks with extraordinary environmental features face big losses in the face of sustained heat. But not much has been addressed since the plan was released in 2010! The state has the Jordan River Commission , and the advocacy group, the Seven Canyons Trust , works on creek daylighting issues throughout the County.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 10, 2023

. == I threw up my hands about the Circulator years ago, calling it "political bus service"--created to assuage particular neighborhood groups, not because it's needed (" Throwing up my hands and the "Anacostia" "Circulator" ," 2010). That's crazy.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 18, 2024

And that there should be ward-specific subcommittees of the pedestrian and bicycle advisory committees to put greater focus on ward specific improvements (this was something I wrote into the Pedestrian and Bicycle Plan I did for Baltimore County in 2010). Seattle's Feet First advocacy group is a great resource for such programs.

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Public Policy Blog

JANUARY 3, 2014

As more of the world becomes connected online, revolutionaries across the globe are being empowered like never before although not all are successful as sustaining the movement the use of information communication technologies (ICT) are critical in developing and executing modern social movements.

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