Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Filtration is an old concept in urban planning (also called "ecological succession," "invasion-succession theory," or "concentric zone theory"). This results in part because an increasing share of the rental housing sector is owned and managed by large firms. It presumes that people with more money move outward from the core.

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Center for Community Progress

MARCH 30, 2023

It’s a pervasive word in community revitalization, urban planning, and housing policy. In fact, having a few vacant properties is a necessary and normal part of a healthy housing ecosystem. They might also describe those blighted properties as “eyesores,” “dilapidated,” “ruined,” or “derelict.”

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 7, 2022

To riff off this, there are five other elements at a minimum that matter a lot, that cities aren't budgeting or planning for, if their central business districts become meccas for housing: public safety. Or some housing on top of retail. Not mixed commercial use.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 10, 2024

See the Boston Globe article, " 'Sticky' places are urban planning lifelines." One day a picnic table appeared outside Pembroke House, a community space in Walworth, south London. People waiting for events in Pembroke House to start would sit down to wait together.”

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Center for Community Progress

AUGUST 10, 2023

Vacant lots are often viewed as pieces within larger systems, such as urban planning or community development, or overlooked entirely. Local government agencies can implement policies and programs that incentivize the use of vacant land for affordable housing or economic development.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 19, 2023

It’s good business' " One of the many regrets I have is not getting a PhD in planning. My intended thesis was around urban planning and civic participation and engagement, because local land use issues are the issue most likely to get people involved in local civic affairs, other than having children and being involved in education issues.

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Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

For many years after the disaster local people lived in 40-square-metre wooden prefabricated homes, the transitional housing provided by the government. It proved to be a crucible of experimentation in architectural, engineering and urban planning terms. For the local economy, all was not lost, or not quite all.

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Center for Community Progress

MAY 24, 2022

The former school houses community-led programs focused on passing on Puerto Rican culinary and cultural heritage through distribution of hot meals and by providing educational tutoring to local youth which incorporates local music and dance.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 13, 2024

From " Designing urban parks that ameliorate the effects of climate change ," Landscape and Urban Planning : During heat waves now and in the future urban microclimates put human health at risk. Planning at the landscape scale for Sugar House Park: the cultural landscape. Water conservation.

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The City Fix

MARCH 10, 2025

Imagine stepping into a city where sustainability isnt just built upwards but also downwards. While cities worldwide grapple with intensifying climate risksflooding, heatwaves and infrastructure strainan untapped solution lies right beneath our feet. The underground isnt just for subways and.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Containing actions that are applicable at the neighborhood scale, the guide strives to present an integrated approach that responds to key sectors such as transportation, local urban initiatives, housing, public spaces, utilities, and more. -- My Neighbourhood Principles -- Compact -- Connected -- Inclusive -- Vibrant -- Resilient Associated with it (..)

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 3, 2023

Once home to a Neiman-Marcus department store, now closed, it's going to be torn down and redeveloped into retail and housing. WTOP reports that DC and MoCo are working to create a business improvement district to help improve the area (" Friendship Heights BID? DC and Montgomery Co. are working on it ").

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 22, 2024

There's an article, " ‘Sticky’ places are urban planning lifelines Shared spaces build community and are key to alleviating America’s loneliness epidemic. An in absentia social bridge could be experienced in the perception of the person who created or maintained the space for the enjoyment of the recipient.

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The City Fix

MARCH 24, 2023

While cities are hubs of innovation and opportunity, the increasing pace of urbanization also exacerbates inequality, stresses infrastructure, and fuels climate change, air pollution and other environmental problems. About two-thirds of the world’s population will live in cities by 2050.

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The City Fix

JUNE 24, 2024

The country’s cities are at the forefront of the climate crisis with more than 80% of the urban population living in. India is the seventh most climate-vulnerable country in the world, with nine of its states among the top 50 most vulnerable regions globally.

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The City Fix

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

The past year registered record-shattering global temperatures. People around the world are already witnessing epic heat waves, wildfires and drought at 1.1 degrees C (2 degrees F) of global warming, compared to pre-industrial averages. With current policies putting the world on.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 21, 2023

Baltimore’s mayor and Maryland’s governor need to appoint a task force that looks at both the ideas that work in other great cities around the world — such as the Guggenheim in Bilbao, the Sydney Opera House, The Charles Bridge in Prague, the Tivoli Gardens in Copenhagen and Pikes Place Market in Seattle — and ideas that have been proposed for Baltimore’s (..)

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 9, 2022

Five are under the city-- Liberty, Pioneer, Fairmont, Jordan, and Sunnyside, and one, Sugar House, is owned by the city and county both, and run by an independent authority (I'm on the board). For example, one of the things I am lobbying for in Salt Lake is to create an evening shift for park maintenance. There are six large city parks.

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The City Fix

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

If you’re a regular reader of TheCityFix, you’re no stranger to the vital role that cities play in shaping the future of our planet. From leading the shift to zero-emission transportation networks to advancing solutions to curb plastic waste at.

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The City Fix

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Amid the vast Amazon River delta, Belém, Brazil, sits at the intersection of the urban and natural worlds. A network of waterways and islands home to resources like açaí and cacao surround the city, serving as a critical port for.

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The City Fix

OCTOBER 23, 2023

It is no surprise then, that Asia and the Pacific have become increasingly more urban. Cities have always been dynamic hubs of culture, education, economic growth and opportunity, and most importantly, centers of social interaction attracting residents and visitors alike.

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The City Fix

AUGUST 16, 2022

History shows that when disasters and crises strike, cities often bounce back stronger and more resilient than before. The great Chicago fire famously gave rise to skyscrapers. Infectious disease outbreaks led to public health policies and modern sanitation. The devastation of World War II catalyzed unprecedented.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

And sidewalk networks and improvements--he advocated that when a house was sold, if it didn't have a sidewalk or the sidewalk was in desperate need of repair, it should be replaced at that time, or that if repaired earlier, postponing payment until sale which he called "pay on exit" (" How L.A. Photo: Robert Gauthier, Los Angeles Times.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

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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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 5, 2024

Plus the NFL team wants a new stadium and Mayor Bowser of DC would like to waste money attracting them back to DC (" House passes bipartisan bill to let D.C. redevelop RFK Stadium site ," Washington Post ). Kirk was the foremost political figure to lead the American Airlines Center project from its conception to construction.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 29, 2024

For example, one tree she learned about was planted as a barter between a family that helped a poorer one heat their house in a particularly cold winter. I mention from time to time that I collect ephemera related to urban planning and what I am involved in. The maple tree is in the back of this photo.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Homelessness concentrates in cities because there are more people, housing is more expensive, and people migrate to cities because they are more likely to offer social services. Readers have called our attention to the book, Homelessness is a Housing Problem , which I haven't yet tracked down ("S," Seattle Times ).

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The City Fix

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Incidents of building collapse are worryingly common in large African cities. One study counted 54 building collapse deaths and 122 injuries in Kampala, Uganda, between 2004 and 2008. Another identified 112 cases in Lagos, Nigeria, from 1978 to 2008. Cities in Ghana and Kenya, Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 1, 2024

The third is preserving housing. I talked about this during the design process, and now that I am on the board of a park, I am proved right. There just aren't that many jobs. And my park is 110.5 Should have been addressed for decades. Plus the real problem in Anacostia is a broken micro-economy.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 3, 2025

In any case, such divisions are often artificial, with women in developing-world cities undertaking economic activity that has too often been ignored. -- " Female-Friendly Cities: Rethinking the Patriarchy of Urban Planning ," Ms. For the most part, links have not been checked. Women as planners and architects. 3, Supplement.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

My contribution to the field of urban planning. If I were to assess my contribution to the profession of urban planning and revitalization, it would be about applying systems thinking to various elements that make up cities. Homogeneous housing and moderate to upper income, insurance, and conventional financing available.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

There's a great deal of experience in urban planning and revitalization around the makeovers of formerly industrial districts into vibrant urban people filled places. Big manufacturing and warehouse buildings offer good floorplates for what is called adaptive reuse. I can hardly take credit for these achievements.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 4, 2024

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. The Black Lives Matter mural on 16th Street NW in DC was partly an "in your face" act vis a vis President Trump during the George Floyd demonstrations.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 5, 2024

After the last one I went to, I joked "we don't need to do one in Sugar House Park. 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. Shoppers will find a wide selection of arts and crafts for all tastes.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Urban design and minority communities. More recently the Biden Administration developed an initiative to fund measures to rebuild connections and address manufactured disparities within disconnected communities (" Transit projects receive more than $1 billion in federal grants designed to reconnect communities ," Mass Transit ).

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