Posts tagged Architecture
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Events: Learn how to run for an ANC seat in DC
Learn how to run for an Advisory Neighborhood Commission seat with GGWash. Join a discussion about charting a more inclusive path in Ward 3. Provide feedback at the 2025 Better Bus Network redesign. Discuss future plans for the ATU site in Hillandale. Explore Brutalist architecture and history. Read more in this week’s events post: Keep reading…
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National links: Always warehouses in Philadelphia
Philadelphia warehouse boom. Introducing the “groundscaper.” AI traffic models are only as good as input data. Keep reading…
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National links: Seattle prioritizes street safety with new Dutch-style protected bike intersection
Seattle finishes its first Dutch-style protected intersection. The nation’s largest Medicaid insurer invests in affordable housing. Why the legacy of Urban Renewal continues to hinder major infrastructure projects today. Keep reading…
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DC is ranked, again, as having the top park system in the US. That’s still a problem.
The National Parks Service owns most of DC’s famed parkland. That creates challenges for managing these amenities and maximizing benefits for the public, regardless of what national awards DC accrues. But it doesn’t have to be that way. Keep reading…
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Building Connections: Deconstructing illegal construction
Our Department of Buildings correspondents tell you how to verify, review, and report illegal construction. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Pentagon City Sector Plan rejected by court
Virginia Court of Appeals tosses out Pentagon City Sector Plan. InfrastructureDC releases study on how to streamline Union Station redevelopment. Court gives Alexandria “Zoning for Housing” opponents 30 days to show harms. Keep reading…
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Walk more in your city. It could open up new horizons.
An urban writer proposes walking as a means of connecting with our cities and our souls. DC, thanks to its partially symbolic design, might be a particularly good proving-ground for the practice. Keep reading…
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DC struggles to build affordable housing in wealthy neighborhoods. Here’s one reason why.
Building a new building is often a slow process, and affordable housing developers navigate it with an additional twist: when working through a competitive government funding process, it takes an especially long time to close on financing. Keep reading…
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New exhibit shows how redlining affected DC and beyond, and what we can do about it today
Racially restrictive covenants and other policies known as “redlining” forced Black residents out of the neighborhoods west of Rock Creek Park, denying them the ability to create generational wealth through homeownership and segregating communities in the District for decades. A traveling exhibit currently housed at the Cleveland Park Neighborhood Library explores those legacies, and considers what can be done about it today. Keep reading…
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How single-stair apartments can improve fire safety
A common objection to requiring only one staircase in new residential buildings is that it would roll back safety regulations to cut costs. But in fact, single-stair reforms have the potential to get more people into safer buildings. Keep reading…