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February is African-American History Month: Urban planning history -- the attempt to make Roxbury a separate city from Boston

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

More recently, in Greater Atlanta, there has been a "create your own city" movement to separate blacks and whites, by selectively incorporating county lands (" The Incorporation of New Cities Has Increased Racial Segregation in Metro Atlanta ," JCHS, " Suburbs, Inc.:

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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

Another area that I would chalk up to a failure of planning leadership is the discussion of proposed changes to the height limit law. I chalk that up to a failure of leadership and approach. The Height Limit discussions. I won't go into it, because it has been discussed elsewhere.

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Citi Logik helps governments drive action on transportation insights with AWS

AWS Public Sector Blog

Citi Logik provides their customers, including the West Yorkshire Combined Authority and Wiltshire County Council, with valuable insights to help them make informed decisions about future transportation planning and urban planning development. They analyse over 150 million journeys in the UK every single day using MND.

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Mexico Made Safe Mobility a Human Right — Here’s How Its Streets Can Become Safer

The City Fix

Mexico became the first nation to declare access to safe mobility a human right in 2020 and two years later passed the General Law of Mobility and Road Safety to protect people, reduce collisions and promote sustainable modes of travel. Now, with this new.

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The call of sprawl: Salt Lake Bees minor league baseball team to move to the suburbs

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

When the Netherlands reset their land use and transportation planning policy away from automobile dependence, one of the things they did was add a "transportation demand" lens to their approval of new development applications (" Utrecht: ABC Planning as a planning instrument in urban planning policy ").

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Proposal to build new basketball arena in Downtown Philadelphia

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

More importantly, it will test whether the city really can provide the infrastructure, investment, and urban planning solutions necessary for Center City to realize its full potential. We like to think of ourselves as stylish, but the truth is Philadelphians are more likely to rally around James Harden than around haute couture.

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

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

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.