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Winter snow clearance in the Walking City

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

I used to write yearly about this, focusing on how the sustainable mobility centric city needs snow removal policies that co-equally privilege walking, biking and transit users, not just the motor vehicle parts of roads.

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". road redesigns are always going to controversial and challenging in an urban landscape designed for, but now overwhelmed by, cars"

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The goal was to test the theory that if people are given quality transportation choices, they will use them. It certainly seems like a fair trade off to make the corridor safer and more convenient for alternative modes of transportation which was the purpose of the project. The project, called Move Culver City , was a 1.3 Two minutes.

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Reflecting on past hope in "reforming" federal cabinet agencies to better focus on urban and rural planning and economic development needs

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

As I wrote before, I'd rather see a reconfiguring of HUD around Cities, Regions and Urban Ecology (sustainability), merging in some parts of the EPA and DOE smart growth operations, local and regional Economic Development aspects of the Dept. of Agriculture, Rural Development, and Sustainability, and refigure the departments some.

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What should the program for a Transportation Management District look like?

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

At the time, my focus was trying to create a shared parking scenario, and to invest in sustainable mobility. Transportation Demand Management programming The reality is, especially in a place like Salt Lake, most people drive.

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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

The COG is the union of local governments and designated by the USDOT as the region's metropolitan planning organization for regional transportation planning and coordination. And a more expanded concept of the "sustainable mobility dates to 2018 (" Further updates to the Sustainable Mobility Framework ").

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Electric bicycles as a quantum opportunity for transportational cycling: can e bikes be conquest sales versus cars?

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The US has a very homogeneous approach to land use and transportation planning. No city has the kind of bicycling for transportation penetration common in the Netherlands or Denmark. Can e-bikes become sustainable mobility conquests versus the car? No temperate city is dominated by mopeds. Tax credits for electric bikes.

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Master planning for solid waste | Creating a VV equivalent for solid waste management and service operating at the metropolitan scale

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

One of my points about master planning is that for functional areas: transportation; parks and recreation; culture; etc., In terms of overall waste reduction planning, it's essential to include all properties in a jurisdiction within planning (" More on zero waste practice (and DC) ," 2015).