Recent Posts
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Autumn Streets: H Street
The Autumn Streets series offers a periodic photographic tour of a major street in DC. This is part three of the series, focusing on H Street. Keep reading…
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White House has a “secret” CaBi station
There is one Capital Bikeshare station that doesn’t show up on the online map: the White House station. Keep reading…
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Celebrate Black Friday, urbanist style
While everyone else is has been in line since 3am drooling over a new iPad, 3D TV, or Zhu Zhu pets, you can enjoy Black Friday from the comfort of your home with our list of must-haves for every urbanist. Lego Public Transport Station - $100 - Lego may have been the only thing in Denmark not to have beaten American cities to the TOD fad, but hey, they probably sell most of their products… Keep reading…
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Give thanks for DC’s great amenities
We spend a lot of time here thinking about ways to make Washington greater, which makes us good at finding fault. It’s important every now and then to celebrate what we do have, and the hard-working public servants who make it all possible. Everyone has their own things they love about the city and the surrounding area, things we don’t appreciate enough. Here’s… Keep reading…
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Will Wal-Mart be urban? Part 3: New Jersey Avenue
Following Wal-Mart’s announcement that they will build four stores in the District of Columbia, this is the third in a four-part series examining the urban design of each proposal. Today: New Jersey Avenue. This is by far the best of the proposals. Located on the fringes of downtown, it is appropriately dense and mixed-use. The building will be five floors, with small format… Keep reading…
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OP responds to zoning update “misunderstandings”
A representative of the DC Office of Planning responded to Topher’s summary of the C100-OP debate on the zoning rewrite and a number of comments on our earlier articles, especially concerning the possibility of allowing commercial uses in residential zones. Below is their statement. There has been a good deal of debate on this blog concerning the comprehensive zoning… Keep reading…
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Govs, Gray hastily jump on BOT’s WMATA bandwagon
Last night, following a conference call between Governors O’Malley (MD) and McDonnell (VA) and DC Mayor-Elect Vince Gray, a press release went out seeming to endorse the recommendations in the Board of Trade’s report on WMATA governance. The press release from the offices of the three executives seemed to endorse the report’s recommendations, including… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Dispatches from Fairfax
Fairfax of the future; Fairfax County parent forms bike train to school; Fairfax parks win gold; Blacks still struggle with employment in DC; Learning from Fear/Sanity; Should we consult original architects on redesigns?; Motorists usually at fault in bike crashes; Eliminate mortgage interest deduction; Cleveland can’t enforce city regs against big banks. Keep reading…