Posts tagged Sprawl
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Leggett’s growth vision is not smart at all
The twin plans of Gaithersburg West and White Flint, both currently under consideration in Montgomery County, provide a rare opportunity to compare elected officials’ responses to Smart Growth infill plans and sprawl development plans. The White Flint plan would convert the mess of strip malls along that segment of Rockville Pike into a real, transit-oriented, walkable neighborhood. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Suburbs aren’t all the same
Not a safe route yet; Les banlieues américaines; Farmer’s Market … to go; The obvious (finally); Arlington an oasis; Race to the bottom; Transit planning in a recession. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links on the run: It’s a treat
“Treat the next person”; HOT lane opposition growing; Stimulus projects creating congestion; Reconnecting zoning. Keep reading…
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Gaithersbungle, part 8: They know it’s a turkey
This week, the Montgomery County Council will hold two hearings on the Gaithersburg West Science “City” development plans. The Council will decide whether to accept huge sprawl office parks with a slow bus under the guise of “walkable transit-oriented development.” Officials from the Planning Board to the County Executive can see the giant flaws, but… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: HOT lanes, cold retail market
Suicide by Metro; I-66 hot again in the press, on the campaign trail; Tempers hot on 95 and 395; Correct(ing) the park(ing) story; No traffic lights in London; Empty storefronts are increasing. Why?; 1940s Sears didn’t destroy Tenleytown; The perfect city according to Byrne; The “rural until we want sprawl there” tier. Keep reading…
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The highway isn’t the only way
In the 1950s, repeated freeway building and widening appeared to be the obvious, logical direction for public policy. Planners, elected officials, and newspaper editorial writers were united around the goal of pushing the population into ever-newer, ever-more distant subdivisions while older small towns were bypassed or razed and inner cities crumbled. Zoning laws and… 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: States like it, commentators don’t
High-speed, Baltimore to Richmond, bit by bit; From bad to worse quality commentary; Loudoun mega-sprawl plan on foreclosure block; Sign them up; Who needs Central Park?; More from Maryland; As least we have SmarTrip. Keep reading…
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Hopkins lobbyist circulating “push poll” survey on Gaithersburg West
Residents of the Gaithersburg and North Potomac areas recently received an email invitation to take a “survey” about the future of the I-270 corridor and The survey comes from Richard Parsons, who was hired by Johns Hopkins University to push for large-scale sprawling office parks on the former farm it owns west of Gaithersburg, far from existing transit and most of… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Forgiven
Metro news; Forgiving vs. self-explaining roads; Manhattan’s “vertical cul-de-sac”; Develop here, not there; Leventhal and Knapp’s own windshield perspective; More progress at 15th and W. Keep reading…