Sat.Apr 27, 2024

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Esso gasoline station road map, Tennessee and Kentucky, 1956, showing the Lookout Mountain Incline Railway funicular in Chattanooga on the cover

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

I am always intrigued by the very rare occurrence of gasoline station roadmaps that show "transit." I have Esso maps with a map of the London Underground, at least two New York City maps (Esso, Texaco) showing the Manhattan part of the NYC Subway, this map, an Exxon Map showing public transportation of the United States, along with highways, and and British American Oil map of Toronto with a small drawing of a TTC subway entrance.

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I wonder if Mayor Fenty hadn't dissolved the Anacostia Waterfront Initiative in 2007, merging it into another city agency, if development would have happened faster?

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Anacostia in better days. The Washington Post reports on a press conference in Anacostia, the most economically lagging area in DC, where the Mayor discussed improvements in the area, in association with a new building for the Department of Housing and Community Development, which was already there, in a not so old building (" After decades of disinvestment, D.C.’s Anacostia welcomes new developments ").