The major snow storm that hit Washington, D.C. this weekend may have shut everything down, but festive residents in the Columbia Heights neighborhood flocked to Meridian Hill Park to enjoy the deluge of white stuff. There seemed to be almost more people in the park than normally found on a Sunday in June. People could [...]
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Compelled by concerns over public health and a returning zeal for urban life with fewer cars, cities across the world are closing roadways to cars and opening them for people. This trend is getting a great endorsement through the World Health Organization’s upcoming World Health Day on April 11, in which it is encouraging cities [...]
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How can we better use space in cities? Allison Arieff takes a shot at answering this question and brings up some very interesting concepts. One of them is from a project called Local Code, an effort of UC-Berkeley professor Nicholas de Monchaux and some of his students to use mapping to identify unused pavement space [...]
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The greenest cities are the most compact cities, says David Owen in his recent book Green Metropolis, pointing to New York City’s urban form as a model for sustainability. For the most part, Owen is right on and the book is a good read. Citing high transit use, walkability and tightly packed buildings, he notes [...]
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Andrew Turco of the Regional Plan Association has some good thoughts on accommodating soccer as it rises in popularity in the U.S.: Not only does this new population of soccer players put a certain type of new demand on grassy public space, but even within this diverse group of players, different sub-groups place different demands [...]
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