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Urban planning when things are going well: DC, 2014 (The Office of Planning under Harriet Tregoning)

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 22, 2025

At the same time planners (and elected officials) are supposed to be helping the citizens. it's a kind of contradiction as discussed in Planning the Capitalist City , where planners have to mediate between capital and the democratic impulse. Planners are the classic example of boundary spanners.

Urban Planning

Urban Planning Elected Officials Housing Development

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

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

I stopped testifying when I realized that the city's elected officials either didn't understand or care. 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.

Transportation

Transportation Parks And Recreation Economic Development Urban Planning

Urban planning when things are going well: DC, 2014 (The Office of Planning under Harriet Tregoning)

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

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