Posts tagged Urban Design
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Breakfast links: Trampled by teenagers
Green line shooting; Unscheduled stop; Up in smoke; All things considered; Alley zoning; Hello Havana; Architectural fashion; Dubious honors; Pop pop-up. Keep reading…
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The winner of a design competition will build the WWI Memorial. Here’s what that means.
Today, the sponsor of the World War I Memorial will choose the winner of its design competition, meaning we’ll get a sense for what the memorial will look like in the end. Whether or not design competitions succeed depends heavily the work that goes into planning them. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Going Gray
Gray out of the shadow; What’s up with WMATA?; Bike lanes for Fairfax; Housing boom and bust; Affordable housing on the Hill; Feds in high castles; Factoring in future feds; It’s not the bikes; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Metro money
Metro budget bliss; Peace out, paper fare cards; Out of gas; Paid leave pushback; Metro as a PPP; Toll foes; Sweet community; TOD without the T?; Bad design is deadly. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Got a GM
A general manager, almost; More time for PTC; Teetering toward tolls; Creative cops; Test the testing; Drive-to urbanism; For the public good, or not; The self-driving choice; Idaho in Europe. Keep reading…
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When it redesigns its campus, Gallaudet hopes to pioneer architecture for the Deaf
The southwestern edge of Gallaudet University borders a growing urban center, but fences close the campus off. Now, the school is rethinking its design and redevelop some of its land to bolster finances. To do this, it’s reimagining 6th Street NE as a corridor that zips together deaf and hearing communities. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Reckless resolution
Plea for hit-and-run; Sidewalk success; Give the people what they want; The social stoop; Forget the flag; Words were involved in an article-related incident; Metro systems by the numbers; And…. Keep reading…
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This map takes another look at “urban” vs “suburban”
Last month, I used housing density to map the real boundaries between “urban” and “suburban” in the DC area. But what if you took other factors into consideration? This map looks a little different, but still shows that there’s more “city” in the region than what’s inside the DC line. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Audits for all
On the clock; Don’t forget the buses!; Failure to communicate; “No” at any cost; Sidewalk cycling?; Finding the funding; Fair housing?; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Whose plan is it anyway?
Keep ‘em coming; Shifting lanes; Playground politics; Retro refit; Fit or fiction; Dipping a toe in the water; Not so fast; And…. Keep reading…