Posts tagged Cat:public_spaces
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Street View! Finally!
Google Maps has finally launched Street View for DC. While the blog announcement features examples all from the federal portion of the city, it has almost all streets in DC, Arlington, and Alexandria, with heavy coverage east to Bowie and then to Annapolis, and south from Alexandria to Springfield and Fort Belvoir. MoCo has just the main roads. Baltimore also launched today, with… Keep reading…
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This weekend: kill with kindness and see Dupont houses
Tomorrow (Saturday) is Cruel 2B Kind, a game where you “kill” your opponents by complimenting them. It’s 2-4 pm on the Mall, and is free. To play, you have to register by 10 am Saturday. Keep reading…
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Be car free in DC
Monday, September 22nd is World Car-Free Day, a day to try getting around without a car (if you use a car for everyday activities) or to celebrate not using cars (if you don’t). The Washington region is celebrating the day with a Car-Free Challenge, where you can pledge to “eliminate or reduce [your] driving.”… Keep reading…
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Fall WalkingTown DC visual schedule
September 20 and 21 (two weeks from now) is the fall WalkingTown DC, a weekend chock-full of free walking tours of neighborhoods, alleys, cemeteries, gardens and more around DC. This spring, I made a visual sechedule to help people more easily visualize the possibilities. Keep reading…
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Speaking of circles: 15th and New Hampshire
Monumentality suggests a circle (technically a modern roundabout) for the intersection of 15th, New Hampshire, and Florida Avenues NW, at the bottom of Meridian Hill Park. The far-too-wide 15th meets these avenues in a giant intersection with too many lanes, long crossing distances for pedestrians, and hazardous bicycling. How about a circle? Keep reading…
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Lunch links: Bad land use decision edition
Like lawn gnomes in the nation’s front yard: The Examiner looks at “mall sprawl”, the constant pressure from interest groups (and caving by Congress) to put more and more memorials on the Mall despite a 2003 law that said they wouldn’t do it. Newer ones aren’t just a simple statue or wall, either: they come with visitors’ centers, that explain… Keep reading…
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Brunch links: everyone else already linked to it edition
Notyetworth or Lawn and Order? City Paper has a feature on DC’s neighborhoods, with cutesy names like “Sacramento” for CUA/Brookland or “Banana Republic Republic” for Georgetown. The accompanying essays for each neighborhood are much less superficial than I expected. The one for Subarubia (Tenleytown/AU Heights) gives a lot of ink to the smart… Keep reading…
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Park(ing) at Sherman and Park
New Columbia Heights reports on the recent community meeting about parks in the neighborhood. In the center of the block from Lamont to Park and Sherman to 11th is a large open area, currently “used as an illegal dumping and parking area.” Councilmember Graham is working on getting the city to buy the property and forgive back taxes to transfer it to Washington Parks &… Keep reading…
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What’s wrong with 17th Street redux
There are more great comments on my post about what’s wrong with 17th Street after the Dupont Circle Update newsletter linked to it yesterday. Keep reading…
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Dupont’s 18th Street next for reconstruction
On top of the streetscape reconstructions planned for 17th Street, 14th Street, U Street, and Adams Morgan’s 18th Street, DDOT recently announced plans to rebuild 18th Street between Massachusetts and Florida. Some plans were done years ago and shelved, but 18th Street’s water main needs rebuilding, and so the street redo is back on the front burner. Keep reading…