Posts tagged Downtown Dc
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Morning links: A sometimes merry land
Support the Pike; From Secretary to Deputy Secretary; Wider, wider, wider; Planner argues stadium opponents missing the point; Crash means holes in the ground; Back in brick; Don’t drink and bike in Poland; Police fee? Streetlight fee? Why not a congestion fee?; The simple answer: Eliminate public transportation. Keep reading…
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Lunch links: Things people dislike
Things neighbors don’t like; Things developers don’t like; At the head; Studies slamming sprawl; Buzz is where you find it. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Fit and flinty
Your bag needs a workout; Putting your MARC on White Flint; Crowdsourcing your future condo’s shade of green; De-sprawling in Flint; Mini links. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Full spaces, empty spaces
That’s a few bikes; Another $2 mil for the empty garage; To raze or not to raze?; Living in a city is better for the environment (but not so much in DC); Maryland’s streets are especially dangerous; Dean hates Metro delays, platform dawdlers; We’re lookin’ at you, SEPTA; PG to United: build your own soccer stadium. Keep reading…
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How to create a successful urban stadium
DC United intends to build a new 24,000 seat stadium in Prince George’s County. This is a golden opportunity for our region to gain another vibrant, regional, walkable, urban, Metro-adjacent, transit-oriented development. Except on game days, stadiums have been centers of un-activity for the past sixty years. However, they don’t need to be like that… Keep reading…
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Then and Now: 470 Louisiana Avenue
Shorpy highlighted this circa 1925 photograph of buildings at 470 Louisiana Avenue. What’s at 470 Louisiana today? Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: the march of technological progress
Fighting Maryland’s Luddism: Legislators and constituents have organized a Facebook campaign to overturn the Maryland General Assembly’s recent ban on using Facebook. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: many ways to be greater
Better architecture through zoning: New York’s Zoning Act of 1919 directly begat the “iconic ziggurat” style prewar skyscrapers. That law required a specific envelope to preserve light and air, and those shapes, it turns out, maximize the buildable square footage. Too bad they later replaced that zoning rule with a basic Floor Area Ratio one that encouraged… Keep reading…
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K Street Transitway delayed seven years, again
DC has a plan on the books to reconfigure K Street, creating a dedicated, physically separated bus lane in each direction. The original “K Street Transitway” study happened in 2004, but there’s been little to no progress since. DC Councilmembers including Jim Graham periodically ask about it, and the Downtown BID thinks it’s a high priority, but there’s… Keep reading…