Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 9, 2023

-- " Paris mayor plans to triple SUV parking tariffs to cut air pollution " From the article: Paris will hold a referendum on 4 February asking residents to vote for or against a specific parking tariff for heavy, large and polluting SUVs. We invite them to use other means of transport, there are alternatives.”

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JANUARY 13, 2023

Partners are seeing increased customer interest in solutions that support critical public services like traffic, voting, transportation, and waste management. We anticipate that 2023 will see an increase in public sector organizations seeking end-to-end solutions versus an interest in building blocks.

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American City & Country

AUGUST 23, 2024

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. Today’s Congress disagrees on many policy or funding topics, but infrastructure is the exception.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JUNE 27, 2024

Traffic calming has been a revolutionary treatment in sustainable mobility focused transportation for the last 20+ years. Salt Lake City Transportation Department pop up booth at Poplar Grove Park. And this need for community communication should be lesson for transportation departments more generally.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 12, 2022

The council, which appoints the board, voted unanimously in a closed session Tuesday to ask the entire board to resign, according to two people familiar with the vote. Those who didn’t resign would have faced a public hearing seeking their removal, the people said.

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Social Pinpoint

APRIL 16, 2024

It features urban greening and sustainable transport, arts events and smart technology, sports, recreation and revitalised laneways, tapping into what’s special about Glenferrie and its community. As a product of closing the loop, this plan showcases extensive community feedback, research and analysis.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 12, 2023

"), 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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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 21, 2024

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). and Baltimore metropolitan areas ," Transport Policy , 2014.

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Public Purpose - An Independent Advisory Company

JUNE 25, 2023

Turkeys, it seems, will always find it hard to vote for Christmas. This kind of deep, system reform has to confront the vested interests of those whose power and status is comfortably entrenched in a status quo that has become a big part of the problem.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 3, 2022

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.”

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

1) neighborhood/district/city/county wide as part of a master plan; (2) within functional elements of a master plan such as transportation, housing, or economic development; and (3) within a specific project (e.g., Arguably this could be an element of the transportation post. This entry became very long, so I broke it up.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 22, 2025

Even though the Office of Planning made a reasonable proposal which would only increase height by 25% (I think it could have been higher), the City Council did not vote in favor of considering a change.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 7, 2025

," Los Angeles Times ) for fear it could swing votes to Republicans, only to go on to agree after the election. Revenues from the congestion charge are earmarked for much-needed improvements to New Yorks ageing subway and other public-transport systems. Drivers will be tolled via E-ZPass or license plate readers.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 29, 2023

The Post is acting like the Takoma Park resident who wrote a letter to the editor stating he'd be voting against all the politicians in office because of the failures in building the Purple Line, even though all the failures are basically the fault of the former Governor, not local elected officials, not state legislators. -- " Takoma Park resident (..)

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 9, 2023

-- " City Weekly's year-end guide to getting through the holidays and closing out those Christmas lists.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 4, 2023

Mitt gets props on impeachment, but on virtually every other issue--including voter suppression--he is a solid vote for conservatives. But also it comes out of the idea that bicycles are toys, for recreation, and aren't viable methods for "real transportation." Probably not, but we can "counterfactual.") So this isn't a surprise.

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Poverty & Policy

MAY 12, 2017

Agencies may further support living at home by providing hands-on help with tasks like meal preparation, light housework and transportation. They can also get equipment to assist them and training on how to use it. Here’s a true win-win. We all, I suppose want to stay in our homes, assuming they’re safe and in relatively good repair.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

The New York City Council is currently considering the Department of City Planning’s City of Yes for Housing Opportunity (COYHO) zoning reform proposal, and is set to vote on the proposed changes by the end of the year.

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The City Fix

DECEMBER 16, 2024

2024 has been a tumultuous year: More than half the worlds population went to the ballot box some voting for radical change extraordinary weather events have devastated communities and countries have been rocked by continued violent conflict.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 30, 2024

Georgia introduced a new way to create transportation districts, then expected people to vote up or down in less than a year (" Failure of the transit-roads sales tax measure in Metro Atlanta ," 2012). Let alone vote on it. I wrote a bunch about failures of transit referenda in Tampa Bay and the State of Georgia in the 2010s.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 5, 2024

From the article: “Home Land Security” opened a few months after the Brexit vote and ran through the U.S. The National Parks article discusses presentation of potentially controversial contemporary art in parks (also see " Home Land Security" art certain to spark dialogue in uncertain times ," Golden Gate Conservancy). presidential election.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 4, 2024

From the article: “Home Land Security” opened a few months after the Brexit vote and ran through the U.S. The National Parks article discusses presentation of potentially controversial contemporary art in parks (also see " Home Land Security" art certain to spark dialogue in uncertain times ," Golden Gate Conservancy). presidential election.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 3, 2025

The transportation profession tends to be dominated by men still, as it is heavily engineering based, but that is changing too. Increasingly, women are being chosen as transportation directors leading city agencies, for example in Pittsburgh, DC's former associate director of transportation planning, Karina Ricks, leads that agency.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 18, 2024

Although the Biden Administration is actually accomplishing a lot, from investments in transportation to creation of technology hubs around the country, continued investment in broadband, etc. (" Joe Biden profile ," New Yorker ). Instead my exercise would be forced by my need for transport. Kaiser Family Foundation).

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Transportation. . -- " Pennsylvania’s blue wave offers Democrats hope for 2024 ," Philadelphia Inquirer Andy Beshear was re-elected Governor in Kentucky , a red state, although Republicans won the Governorship in Mississippi --not really a surprise although he faced some difficulties, and a couple weeks ago in Louisiana.

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