Reprogramming the City

APRIL 1, 2023

The syngas can be further processed into electricity, heat, or transportation fuels (US Department of Energy, 2020). million gallons of low-carbon transportation fuels (Fulcrum BioEnergy, 2021). This reduces reliance on fossil fuels and supports the transition towards renewable energy sources (Arena, 2012).

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First State Insights

DECEMBER 4, 2020

He came to the Journal from Congressional Quarterly, where he was economic policy editor from 2012 to 2015. He came to the Journal from Congressional Quarterly, where he was economic policy editor from 2012 to 2015. He has had a long career in logistics reporting, including nearly 20 years at The Journal of Commerce.

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Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

APRIL 24, 2022

Everyday risk factors are different when floods, transportation crashes, landslides, toxic spills, structural collapses occur against a background of asymmetric warfare, armed insurgency, fighting or rampant terrorism. One question that is asked relatively rarely is why we exclude warfare from our definitions of disaster.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MAY 13, 2024

WRT bus service improvement see: -- " Making bus service sexy and more equitable ," 2012 -- " Will buses ever be cool? San Francisco Bay overnight transit map. And with that I had to laugh.

Transportation 52

Transportation Public Transportation Communications Implementation 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 11, 2022

One of my points about master planning is that for functional areas: transportation; parks and recreation; culture; etc., But they aren't organized into an overarching association, in a manner comparable to how Germany organizes regional transport associations to coordinate the planning and delivery of transit services.

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Parks And Recreation Operations Transportation Sanitation 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 20, 2023

The first proposes a "transport association" based on the German VV model, where all the local transit providers commit to integrated service, and a common schedule and fare system. They started planning in 2012, construction in 2014, and opened the first stations in South Florida in 2018. Lots of deaths.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 2, 2022

Cycletrack and sidewalk, Virginia Avenue SE, Capitol Hill, Washington DC As great new infrastructure is added, we need to redouble our efforts to actually shift people to cycling (I submitted thousands of words about this to the planning process for the Salt Lake City Master Transportation Plan.) So we need to address both. But most don't.

Parks And Recreation 52

Parks And Recreation Transportation Advocacy Public Safety 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Plans for a redesign of the State Street commercial corridor in downtown Ann Arbor as presented to the city's Transportation Commission by the Downtown Development Authority and SmithGroup in January 2022. Exhibition Road in London is much better design-wise ( Guardian review , 2012). But I suppose it is a start.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JUNE 27, 2024

Traffic calming has been a revolutionary treatment in sustainable mobility focused transportation for the last 20+ years. Salt Lake City Transportation Department pop up booth at Poplar Grove Park. And this need for community communication should be lesson for transportation departments more generally.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JULY 14, 2022

. -- " Misunderstanding Uber, Taxi regulation and what we might call the "Overground Economy" ," 2013 -- " App based ride services and creative destruction and plain old destruction ," 2014 -- " The false promise of ride hailing as a pro-city transportation mode ," 2018 -- " What a terrible idea: deregulating taxi fares in DC for mobile-based hails (..)

Regulations 52

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

. -- Purple line planning in suburban Maryland as an opportunity to integrate place and people focused initiatives into delivery of new transit systems " -- " Quick follow up to the Purple Line piece about creating a Transportation Renewal District and selling bonds to fund equitable development "). CDC,s can be such a tool.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 18, 2023

Bicycle Traffic as a system, diagram, German National Bicycle Plan, 2002-2012 It comes up again because according to the Washington Post (" New Capital Crescent Trail tunnel could be delayed as costs grow "), now the cost of a tunnel is over $80 million.

Public Administration 52

Public Administration Government Transportation 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Bicycle Traffic as a system, diagram, German National Bicycle Plan, 2002-2012 It doesn't need to take 60 years. It's ready for a slight update because I have a couple more items. We spent 60+ years building a system of automobility. We need to build a similar system for biking. But it does need to be purposive.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

But the failures in planning extend beyond DC (" Silver Line Metro expansion a classic example of the need to have true regional transportation planning ," 2011). Create the DMV Transport Association (" The answer is: Create a single multi-state/regional multi-modal transit planning, management, and operations authority association ") 2.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 4, 2022

And these days the US Secretary of Transportation is pushing this as an environmental justice measure (" Pete Buttigieg launches $1B pilot to build racial equity in America's roads ," NPR). The Bridges now. What's proposed, rendering with the park in place. " DC should get on the bandwagon.

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Parks And Recreation Urban Planning Transportation Outreach 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 1, 2023

And it had one of the best transportation demand management signs I've ever seen in a retail store. Sadly," of the three it has the best building, a traditional design mixed use style that fits in with nearby buildings including the Government Printing Office.

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Google Public Sector

OCTOBER 30, 2018

At the state level, Colorado moved to G Suite in 2012 to simplify IT, transforming how teams work together and empowering employees to rethink inefficient business processes. They have realized $32.5M in total cost avoidance as a result. You can learn more about our work with the public sector here.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Bicycle Traffic as a system, diagram, German National Bicycle Plan, 2002-2012. One of the biggest problems with cycling take up, besides the fact that it's slower, so longer trips are less likely to be capturable--even so, 64% of all US trips are 7 miles or less--is secure bicycle parking.

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Security Operations Public Safety Transportation 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 29, 2022

TPAPs should be implemented at multiple scales: (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.,

Economic Development 52

Economic Development Development Transportation Government 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 12, 2023

In turn that would help to spur development of the Pepco power plant site, which stopped producing electricity in 2012, and Benning Road further east, and Minnesota Avenue. Proposed Gatineau light rail loop to Ottawa to serve museums and the Byward Public Market is another model for intra-district transportation. Other areas too.)

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 9, 2024

Level of service a s a public administration term The term Level of Service is typically thought of in transportation term is used to refer to vehicle throughput, functioning of intersections, etc. This foue-part series covers the gaps I've identified so far.

Parks And Recreation 52

Parks And Recreation Public Administration Housing Sanitation 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 9, 2022

. -- " Planning for place/urban design/neighborhoods versus planning for transportation modes: new 17th Street NW bike lanes | Walkable community planning versus "pedestrian" planning ," 2021 -- " The layering effect: how the building blocks of an integrated public realm set the stage for community building and Silver Spring, Maryland as an example (..)

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Management Nonprofit Parks And Recreation Development 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

I suggested many things over the years including: -- creating a transportation management district for the Capitol Hill area, serving Eastern Market. This was proposed a number of years ago for EM, first in the Barry Administration and then around 2012-2013, but the vendors fought it, with the support of now Mayor Muriel Bowser.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

to fix bad practices, make them democratic instead of just eliminating them ," (2012) (also discusses participatory budgeting) Note that the network concept applies to parks and libraries friends groups, and school PTAs as well. This entry became very long, so I broke it up. Even neighborhood associations. testimonies too.

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Transportation Parks And Recreation Economic Development Urban Planning 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 1, 2024

Out of region visitors spend on lodging, food, and transportation. An important distinction they make is between in region and out of region visitation. This extends to other public lands.) But spending by in-region visitors, spending per party--not per person--for in region visitation is $42 per day. That's not a lot of money.

Parks And Recreation 52

Parks And Recreation Education Development Economic Development 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 29, 2022

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. That could have been accomplished already. Caption from the Baltimore Sun.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MAY 10, 2024

The Cache Valley Daily reports, " Local stakeholders to host transportation safety summit at Logan Library ," that the MPO there is holding a traffic safety conference next week, to support its plan to reduce crashes and deaths. CMPO’s 2024 Safety Summit will be held from 9 to 11:30 a.m.

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Transportation Laws Sustainability Budgeting 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 18, 2024

Inadequacies in school transportation planning ," 2022 -- School Walk and Bike Routes: A Guide for Planning and Improving Walk and Bike to School Options for Students -- Safe Routes to School program , Washington State -- City of Tacoma SRTS program , including SRTS Action Plan -- Starkville in Motion A failed job interview with DDOT.

Transportation 40

Transportation Campaign Public Health Laws 40

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 21, 2022

The project took six years to complete, and the station opened in 2012, with full service in 2013. As part of the redevelopment plan, the U4 line was extended by about 4/10 miles with the addition of the HafenCity University station (the line has since been further extended). Conclusion. It's been 26 years.

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Transportation Development Economic Development Government 52

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

AUGUST 20, 2021

This is impossible to substantiate, but goods manufactured in a donor country, brought to Haiti by transport from that country and distributed by personnel from the same country would do little to stimulate the Haitian economy. ii] Farmer, Paul 2012. That is an important strength, but time will tell whether it is enough to get by on.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 7, 2022

The University of Pennsylvania funded a school in the Center City, in order to stabilize the neighborhoods around the campus, to attract as new residents people with choice.

Public Safety 52

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Transit/transportation as a set of networks operating at different scales : this extends the argument laid out in the 2006 Arlington County Master Transportation Plan, where they defined their primary and secondary transit networks. ( This entry became very long, so I broke it up. I have more than 1,000 entries on this topic.

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Transportation Sustainability Parks And Recreation Development 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

I have a post about this related to biking (" Revisiting assistance programs to get people biking: 18 programs "), this piece about bus transit (" Making bus service sexy and more equitable ," 2012), and this about district-focused transportation programming (" What should the program for a Transportation Management District look like? ").

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

In March 2012, the NYU Furman Center’s Vicki Been and Simon McDonnell published a policy brief, Searching for the Right Spot: Minimum Parking Requirements and Housing Affordability in New York City.

Housing 59

Housing Development Regulations Public Transportation 59

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 24, 2023

Admittedly, many transportation agencies are investing a lot in urban design, livable streets, sustainable mobility, etc. A big issue is that transportation agencies (and government agencies more generally), even very good ones like NYCDOT, aren't always that proactive, and tend to not have "a sense of urgency" when it comes to action.

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Transportation Economic Development Sustainability Elected Officials 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 30, 2024

Georgia introduced a new way to create transportation districts, then expected people to vote up or down in less than a year (" Failure of the transit-roads sales tax measure in Metro Atlanta ," 2012). I wrote a bunch about failures of transit referenda in Tampa Bay and the State of Georgia in the 2010s.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

2, 2012, in Houston. Photo: Johnny Hanson/Houston Chronicle The battles over transportation access were central to the Civil Rights movement. Transit Equity Day , set by the American Public Transportation Association as February 4th , during African American/Black History Month, is one way to acknowledge this. 9, in Houston.

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