Posts tagged New Urbanism
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Breakfast links: Is it ethical?
Scandal of the week: Tampa trip; Catania making $240K from electric contractor; Is Metro friendly for kids?; Beware confusing SmarTrip balance readouts; Contractor, MWAA dispute Silver Line delays; Megabus in, tour buses out; Residents disagree on Adams Morgan’s future; DC urges WMATA to hire more residents; Light rail to Charles Co?; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Governments get the message
MPD issues cyclist mea culpa; Maryland getting tougher on bad drivers; Housing prices are more than supply and demand; Whither the young preservationists?; Arlington hires celebrity planner; ANCs make their own rules; Some stations have 4th, 5th, and 6th rails; Is Southwest DC historic enough?; It’s curtains for the Lincoln Theatre; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Running to hit
Ehrlich would kill Purple, Red lines; Bam; Damn kids!; Red Line passenger expires; $40 million bus stop?; Francoise car-rier?; Stuff getting built with DC public money. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Bringing in business
No new restaurants?; A fake small town for your office; Chevy Chase against something; O’Malley fights to preserve MTA, not WMATA; VDOT drops “pave the preserve” plan; VA maps bikes; Meet the ambassador; Dots from DDOT?. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: How to spend federal money
$8 billion, high-speed; 9.6% of trips, 1.2% of money; Money for less free parking; Indian freeway turns town square into barrier; Challenge BikeArlington; 3-foot passing closer to passing; Urbanist Republican(s) for Planning Board. Keep reading…
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Slow and steady creates Virginia’s Urban Development Areas
Over the last couple of years the state government of Virginia has been rolling out a land use planning category for localities known as Urban Development Areas (UDAs), where higher density development can be concentrated. The concept started off slowly in 2007 with HB 3202 as an advisory element to be placed in the Comprehensive Plans of “high growth” localities,… 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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Transforming a suburban church into a neighborhood
Could developing large parking lots help suburban churches fund improvements? Grenfell Architecture designed this plan to help a parish create a more beautiful church using solid New Urbanist principles and traditional Virginia architecture. The church occupies typically sprawling suburban lot, surrounded by seas of asphalt and low-rise buildings. However, while I… Keep reading…
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Reburbia puts the future of suburbs on the catwalk
In “Eyes That Do Not See,” Le Corbusier noted that airplane designers were unable to achieve heavier-than air flight until they understood the underlying issues of aeronautics — until they had posed the problem correctly. Until the tinkerers stopped imitating birds and kites and began investigating lift in a scientific way, they just produced spectacular… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Bike lanes and pushy drivers
Road dieting is healthy; Hoboken Hobikelane; Police to ticket aggressive drivers; Offices in the west; Cruzing on the Hill; Around the region; Across the nation. Keep reading…