Posts tagged Landuse
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What transit corridors tell us about land use intensity in Montgomery County
As Montgomery County continues to grow in population, what can the National Land Cover Database (NLCD), a dataset generated from satellite imagery that classifies land, tell us about development near rapid transit corridors? Keep reading…
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Land use policy can push for an inclusive city. Ours does not.
DC’s Comprehensive Plan is a land use and policy document that is supposed to be a guide for inclusive growth in the coming decades. Unfortunately, it has too many parts that, in the hands of exclusionary and anti-development neighbors, are the means to push all of DC’s growth and change onto other, typically poorer, parts of the city. Keep reading…
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Gentrification in DC is a west-of-the-park issue, too
Let’s not forget a fundamental cause of gentrification: powerful people who use their privilege to prevent the place they live from changing, pushing the pressures of growth onto the less wealthy and less empowered. Keep reading…
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“Self-driving vehicles will improve our cities, if they don’t ruin them”
Driverless cars, drones, and other high-tech changes to urban transportation are on the way. But will they make our cities heaven or hell? Keep reading…