Posts tagged History
-
Dave Thomas Circle is getting revamped. It’s not the first time.
After being redesigned and updated multiple times in the past four decades, a new configuration for the treacherous Northeast intersection is set to open soon. Will it be successful? Keep reading…
-
Life in Greenbelt and Langston Terrace’s early days
Despite some oppressive rules, DC area residents were grateful to live in the two New Deal-era planned communities, and community blossomed. Keep reading…
-
Events: Advocating for more sustainable and livable communities
Tour the future of the 11th Street Bridge Park project. Learn if you qualify for DC’s IZ policy. Discuss how to advocate for more sustainable and livable communities. Explore the history of Columbia Pike. Read more in this week’s events post. Keep reading…
-
Three transportation gems in our region
Even though White’s Ferry is in limbo, these three other transportation gems are still here for the exploring! Keep reading…
-
Where is downtown DC? It’s up for debate
DC’s zoning map provides one definition for Downtown, business improvement districts and the Census Bureau give others — and none of them are perfect. Keep reading…
-
Segregation and the rise of the car shaped DC’s “new downtown”
In the mid-century, the District’s downtown began to shift north and west as suburbanization and other post war changes took hold. Keep reading…
-
DC’s downtown wasn’t supposed to be where it is. Here’s how it migrated
George Washington and Pierre L’Enfant envisioned a very different city when they laid out plans for the Capitol. Part I of a three-part series discusses what changed for the nation’s capital between the 1700s and World War II. Keep reading…
-
Breakfast links: Administrative issues hampering nonprofits’ use of DC homelessness aid
DC housing nonprofits returning federal aid for unhoused due to staffing and administrative challenges. Regional tap water has odd taste due to prevalence of algae byproducts. Baltimore considers land bank to tackle vacant housing crisis. Keep reading…
-
DC’s historic board voted to protect a non-historic parking lot. Why?
DC’s Historic Preservation Review Board protected a non-historic parking lot in Chevy Chase. The decision indulges the desire (of some) to use historic preservation to override zoning and prevent development, and defies HPRB’s own precedents. Keep reading…
-
Breakfast links: Identifying 41 Alexandria streets named for Confederate leaders and likely to be renamed
Alexandria report identifies 41 streets named for Confederate leaders to be renamed. Despite high interest rates, tough competition for upper NW DC homes. Metro’s bus network redesign includes Tysons-to-Bethesda route. Keep reading…