Posts tagged Art
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Events: Discover how art and design can lift up public transit
Discover how art and design can lift up public transit. Learn basic bike maintenance techniques. Attend a webinar on manufactured housing. Ride around DC by Circulator bus. Read more in this week’s events post. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: 225 housing units still planned for Adams Morgan
225 units planned across developments in Adams Morgan. Arlington County Schools start 2023 with their first electric buses. Amidst growing costs, MoCo Executive pushes to delay Capital Crescent Tunnel. Keep reading…
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“Masked George Washington” is a Photoshop job for our time
U Street’s famous Silenced George Washington mural has received an update for 2020. Sort of. Keep reading…
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Events: Join the conversation about expansion plans for Union Station
Learn about the expansion of Union Station and Burnham Place, celebrate excellence in landscape architecture, hobnob with fellow urbanists at the Smart Growth Social, and more in urbanist events. Keep reading…
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Wheaton’s art parade shows how we can reuse vacant suburban spaces
This Sunday, works of art will take over the streets of downtown Wheaton for the Wheaton Art Parade. Now in its second year, the parade is a sign of how communities in Montgomery County are finding new uses for vacant suburban retail spaces. Keep reading…
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Bus transformation #2: Integrate the region’s bus systems
If you’re trying to take a bus from one place to another, you don’t care if a local government or WMATA owns the bus and hires the driver, or who pays for it. But which government runs a bus line does affect how it's illustrated on maps, what websites let you track it, and what fares and passes cover it. Could this all be simpler? Keep reading…
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WMATA is looking to “transform” bus service in our region. Here are 7 ways to do it (and one not to)
What should buses mean for the Washington region? How many should there be, and who should run them? What kinds of services (like locals, “rapid” limited-stops, expresses, etc.) should we have? How can the bus better serve people and stay cost-effective? These are some questions that might be answered through a new effort called the Bus Transformation Project. Keep reading…
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How to make protected bikeways public art
As networks of protected bike lanes continue to expand, cities around the country can look for opportunities to make their bike lanes more beautiful. Keep reading…
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Check out the new Pow! Wow! mural festival art around NoMa
The Pow! Wow! DC mural festival brightened various walls in NoMa for the third time last week, adding new splashes of color to the near northeast DC neighborhood. Keep reading…
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Events: Your 2045 vision, open government, POW! WOW! mural fest, and more
Your vision for 2045, a chance to meet the Maryland candidates, POW! WOW! mural festival, a bike tour of RFK stadium, and more in events this week. Keep reading…