Posts tagged Frank Gehry
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Beware the starchitects, beware repetition
DC resident Jeff Speck wrote Suburban Nation, the best-selling book about city planning since Jane Jacobs. Greater Greater Washington is pleased to present 3 weekly excerpts from his new book, Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time. We’ve come a long way since the seventies, when every city endeavored to build its own version of Boston’s… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Pay to move
Ride past 9 innings; Parking displaces Wheaton market; Eisenhower Memorial delayed; How rural is rural?; Bikes on BART; Los Angeles, transit city; Safer at any speed; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Making plans
A new library; A Ward 7 Walmart; More CaBi for Arlington; WMATA hires in planning and development; Maryland sees crime rate fall; Don’t “like” new Facebook HQ; Dresden rolls out longest bus; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Time
No nighttime Purple Line?; Ike’s family wants more time; Still on the loose; Unions against transit; Put a lid on it; New city will be empty; LA gets its groove back; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: A new era in Ward 5
Councilmember McDuffie; Metro opens doors?; Res. 13 starts slowly; Budget harmony; Roads getting safer; Tweaks to Ike Memorial; Speed camera torched; Norton not allowed to represent; New Urbanists are the adults in the room; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Improvements
Fares will increase less; Now you see Silver, now you don’t; From parking to high rises; See ideas for the Mall; Modify the Ike memorial?; Hard to grab lunch in Anacostia; A city that still sleeps; Brutal preservation; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Follow the money
Team Thomas spends on luxuries; Imagine the L Street cycletrack; Ike Memorial has windshield perspective; Gray supports aerial Dulles station; Gowdy, unexpected champion of DC autonomy; Rage against the machine; Hate crimes shift, but still under-reported; Community polices trail; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Bad old days
Scandals are the 80s all over again?; Thomas, get out; Hit and run, alcohol and PTSD; Where are the rent controlled apartments?; Pile of twisted metal or triumphal arch?; New Hampshire may weigh in on DC statehood; HOT builder bowing out?; Gabe putting in bike lanes; Auto executives for higher gas taxes. Keep reading…
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Weekend links: CaBi CaBi everywhere
CaBi in your CBA; CaBi in the CBD; Arlington businesses fine with CaBi; How to get parents to let kids walk or bike to school?; Neighborhoods exacerbate kids’ obesity; DC lacking public spaces; Reward for not using Gehry; US exceptional, and not in a good way; And…. Keep reading…
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Afternoon links: Seen through a lens
New cameras coming; Visting a better transit system; CaBi: Try it, you’ll like it; Loh more open on Purple Line; Can you do better for Ike?; Hine gets smaller, loses Shakespeare and Tiger; Move the region forward through meetings; McCain doesn’t want you to bike to the airport. Keep reading…