Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Main Street commercial district revitalization practice grew out of HP and a desire to save "old buildings" in the face of the development of shopping centers, chain retail, and broken microeconomies. This entry became very long, so I broke it up.

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American City & Country

AUGUST 23, 2024

In response to these consequences, the ASCE released the Sustainable Infrastructure Standard, ASCE 73-23, a tool that provides guidance for infrastructure owners to develop and implement sustainable solutions throughout a project’s entire life cycle. A recent great example is the Water Resources Development Act.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 4, 2023

OTOH, it is still very much a poster child for the sprawl development paradigm.) Mitt gets props on impeachment, but on virtually every other issue--including voter suppression--he is a solid vote for conservatives. So who knows, maybe George Romney would have been okay with electric bikes as an alternative to automobile dependency?

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 12, 2022

The council, which appoints the board, voted unanimously in a closed session Tuesday to ask the entire board to resign, according to two people familiar with the vote. The upheaval in the planning agency’s governance has shocked even longtime political observers in a county accustomed to intense development spats.

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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

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Since 2003, when I was on the board of H Street Main Street, and advocating that the group create a housing growth strategy in its retail trade area, I suggested that the RFK parking lots, especially along Benning Road, should be converted to housing and mixed use development. Flickr photo by Ken Lund. Other areas too.)

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Social Pinpoint

APRIL 16, 2024

It features urban greening and sustainable transport, arts events and smart technology, sports, recreation and revitalised laneways, tapping into what’s special about Glenferrie and its community. As a product of closing the loop, this plan showcases extensive community feedback, research and analysis.

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Public Purpose - An Independent Advisory Company

JUNE 25, 2023

Turkeys, it seems, will always find it hard to vote for Christmas. This kind of deep, system reform has to confront the vested interests of those whose power and status is comfortably entrenched in a status quo that has become a big part of the problem.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 3, 2025

The transportation profession tends to be dominated by men still, as it is heavily engineering based, but that is changing too. Increasingly, women are being chosen as transportation directors leading city agencies, for example in Pittsburgh, DC's former associate director of transportation planning, Karina Ricks, leads that agency.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

These mandates increase development costs, reducing the feasibility of new housing projects and ultimately limiting the supply of housing. COYHO is aimed at easing New York City's housing shortage by updating zoning regulations to encourage more housing development across the city.

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The City Fix

DECEMBER 16, 2024

2024 has been a tumultuous year: More than half the worlds population went to the ballot box some voting for radical change extraordinary weather events have devastated communities and countries have been rocked by continued violent conflict.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 5, 2024

From the article: “Home Land Security” opened a few months after the Brexit vote and ran through the U.S. Washington, DC paints a giant ‘Black Lives Matter’ message on the road to the White House ," CNN Developing policies for response in advance of such controversies is advised. presidential election. Monuments that are controversial.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 4, 2024

From the article: “Home Land Security” opened a few months after the Brexit vote and ran through the U.S. Washington, DC paints a giant ‘Black Lives Matter’ message on the road to the White House ," CNN Developing policies for response in advance of such controversies is advised. presidential election. Monuments that are controversial.

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