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A dispute over Amtrak funding derailed a vote on THUD

GCN

The House GOP’s Transportation and Housing and Urban Development funding bill would cut $8 billion from the departments. But that’s not what scuttled the vote.

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Policy Minute: Eliminating Minimum Parking Requirements

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

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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Need for social marketing initiatives around installation of neighborhood traffic calming initiatives: Salt Lake City

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Traffic calming has been a revolutionary treatment in sustainable mobility focused transportation for the last 20+ years. It's doing some great bike infrastructure, some of which we will be trying to get for the perimeter of Sugar House Park. Salt Lake City Transportation Department pop up booth at Poplar Grove Park.

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America is at a crossroads with its infrastructure future

American City & Country

It’s designed for a range of civil projects from energy to water to transportation systems and acts as a guide for engineers to develop and implement practices that promote sustainability and long-term reliability of infrastructure projects. The Senate passed its bill by unanimous consent in August, and the House passed its version in July.

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Community building versus economic development

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The Walking City urban form is the "urban technology" that supports active cities (" Transportation and Urban Form: Stages in the Spatial Evolution of the American Metropolis" ," " Department stores are an "urban technology" built for walking not driving ," 2024). Philadelphia has advantages. blocks from a light rail station.

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Capital One Arena, Wizards and Capitals may move to Alexandria | Why not the RFK campus?

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

"), and that often means suburban locations where adjacent land is more easily acquired and controlled by the team, it was announced that Monumental Sports is negotiating with Virginia for a Potomac Yards location (" Lawmakers vote in favor of plan to bring Capitals, Wizards to Virginia ," Washington Post ). Flickr photo by Ken Lund.

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Defining deviance down: Disorder and cities in 2022

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

She and her colleagues ought to bear in mind the words of the writer and academic Ross McKibbin , written in 1999 but every bit as relevant to 2022: “The middle classes make more use of the NHS, public transport, public libraries, local swimming pools, public parks and their right to state welfare than anyone else.”