Posts tagged Kentlands
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Breakfast links: Regulation
Big-box protections can harm; Follow the regs; What the frack?; Kentlands split over BRT; Pay the fare with your phone; Howze wins the nomination; Will more Dems run as independents?; Cyclists continue riding; And…. Keep reading…
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25 years later, what can we learn from New Urbanism?
It’s been 25 years since development started at Gaithersburg’s Kentlands, America’s first year-round new urbanist community. With a quarter century of experience under our belt, not to mention a major shift in American development patterns, what have we learned? When new urbanism hit the big time in the late ‘80s and early ‘90s, central cities… Keep reading…
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Urbanism is good for everyone, especially kids
We assume that kids belong in the suburbs, where they’ve got yards to play in and great schools to learn in. But good, urban neighborhoods can produce good kids as well. Twenty years ago, sociologist Ray Oldenburg wrote in The Great, Good Place that teenagers are a litmus test for a neighborhood’s “vitality”: The adolescent houseguest, I would… Keep reading…
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MTA considers a better Corridor Cities Transitway
Three potential alignment changes for the Corridor Cities Transitway, a proposed light rail or BRT line running north from Shady Grove Metro through Gaithersburg, will let the line reach the walkable neighborhoods near its route and substantially increase ridership at relatively little cost. In 2006, planners ignored the many walkable, urban neighborhoods near the route… Keep reading…
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Dear Andres Duany: Money, not millennials, hurting cities
Dear Mr. Duany, At twenty-two years old, I qualify as a Millennial. I enjoy loud music and cheap, greasy food, among other things. I also love cities, including Washington, D.C., the one I was born in. I can’t afford to live there, so I live at home with my parents. Yet, according to what you recently told the Atlantic, I’m ruining the place: “There’s… Keep reading…
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Two (very different) planned towns in Maryland
Passing through the D.C. metro area after New Year’s, we decided to visit two classic planned communities in the Maryland suburbs: Greenbelt and Kentlands. Both were planned and built from the ground up and both contain around 2,000 households. Otherwise, they could not be more different. One was entirely created by the federal government, the other by private developers. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: People creating neat charts and graphs
Baltimore 15-minute map; Why people are driving less; A hopelessly sprawly exurb and a somewhat walkable one; Stop paving over your front yard; Should DC hybrid drivers be able to use VA HOV lanes?; Mixed-use federal buildings?; National Harbor says reroute is for safety; Boxer might sell out good transportation again. Keep reading…
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JHU Life Sciences Center: show me the transit!
Johns Hopkins University wants to expand and update its Shady Grove Life Sciences Center to meet the needs of the 21st Century. JHU owns the 100-acre Belward Farm in West Gaithersburg, and Montgomery County is developing a plan for the area. It aims to change the campus from its current form as a “sprawling, single-use, auto-oriented area” to a place that can be “more… Keep reading…