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20th anniversary of the blog| Urban revitalization systems thinking's greatest hits: Part two -- not transportation

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Rational planning is pretty static at least to me, with constrained scopes and less willingness to change approaches and recommendations as new information is uncovered. Once too, I misheard a presentation at a conference, and I thought the presenter said she applies "graphic design" approaches to urban planning.

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Revisiting the 11th Street Bridge Park project as an opportunity rather than a folly: a new revitalization agenda for East of the River, DC

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Get the parks working together and coordinated. I think there are two different approaches that could break the logjam, one would be the designation of this area as a National Heritage Area , where NPS helps to coordinate a variety of federal, state, local and private assets in an integrated fashion. Medical education campus at St.

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African American History Month and Transportation: February 4th | Transit Equity Day

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

A future Mayor of DC, Marion Barry intended to get a PhD but instead came to DC to set up a chapter on civil rights organizing for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. A new study by Boston University School of Public Health (BUSPH) and Harvard T.H. Bus Fare Boycott, 1965/1966.