Showing posts with label Cincinnati. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cincinnati. Show all posts
Thursday, May 23, 2019

Public safety for non-automotive humans? Gahan fails, utterly.

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This fellow is a candidate for city council in Cincinnati. Note his words in bold. Can you imagine a New Albanian politician -- any New A...
Friday, March 22, 2019

Gang of Five in Cincy: "Citizens expect that when there's a city council meeting, that's when matters should be addressed and actions taken."

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It's a "secret" texting and e-mailing scandal in Cincinnati, and since Democrats were the offenders, NA Confidential thrust ...
Tuesday, October 31, 2017

Strong Towns Week: Man buys $15,000 uninhabitable shack to renovate. What could go wrong?

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We've all heard about something too big to fail. Welcome to the story of a 700-foot house too small to (be allowed to) succeed. LE...
Saturday, June 18, 2016

Long read: "How Cincinnati Salvaged the Nation’s Most Dangerous Neighborhood."

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The good, the bad and the ugly. But: Brewery District. How Cincinnati Salvaged the Nation’s Most Dangerous Neighborhood , by Colin Woodar...
Sunday, November 08, 2015

Speck casually advises Cincy: "None require widening a road; it’s simply a matter of restriping them."

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Let's live dangerously and reprint the entire article (below). It's too good to miss, and hits close to the target. As you'...
Thursday, September 24, 2015

"A recent transplant’s view of Cincinnati" is relevant to us, too.

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If the Gahan administration really comprehended what millennials want, would the flunkies be allowed to use the words "millennial"...
Monday, September 29, 2014

Of ghost stations and other subterranean public spaces.

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On the day of our visit to where the Wall was, and isn't , Diana and I discussed this very phenomenon of ghost stations. I remember them...
Tuesday, April 15, 2014

A theory of river towns, civic assets and underperformance.

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It's remarkable how at various points in their lives, New Albanians glance around them and remark, "well, we're just a dirty ol...
Tuesday, December 24, 2013

Cincy will have its street car, after all. Well, maybe.

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On December 16, we took a peek. Politicians, streetcars and money in Cincinnati. A streetcar system is coming back to Cincinnati, excep...
Monday, December 16, 2013

Politicians, streetcars and money in Cincinnati.

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A streetcar system is coming back to Cincinnati, except maybe it isn't, even though construction has started. There was an election, ...
Tuesday, July 17, 2012

Paging Bob Caesar ...

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Nah, never mind. City leaders partner with Walnut Hills to advance two-way street conversions BY  JOHN YUNG  ―  JULY 16, 2012 The ne...
Tuesday, May 01, 2012

"Complete Streets" in New Albany?

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Once you grasp that cars are here to serve people, and not the other way around, it's a lot easier to understand how ideas like these ca...
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Tuesday, March 20, 2012

“Residential is a great use for older buildings as opposed to office uses”.

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Doesn't this idea apply to the Elsby Building? Downtown Cincinnati poised for surge of residential conversions , by Randy Simes (Urba...
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Sunday, February 12, 2012

"The Whipping Man" comes highly recommended.

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While in Cincinnati last Friday evening, we attended The Ensemble Theater of Cincinnati's production of "The Whipping Man," ...
Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Rationality from elsewhere: Bicycling, public transport and form-based codes.

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After reading Louisville's toll-happy new mayor officiously gurgle ( to a dietitian, no less ) yet again about the grandeur of oligarchy...
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Friday, July 22, 2011

Up with people, upriver.

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While Louisville metro dullards contemplate suicide by concrete, Cincinnati is choosing life on its riverfront. Debt free . Envy Cincinnati...
Monday, July 30, 2007

Night of the living plastic bottled swill Hell … but a good time for the discerning.

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Imagine that you’ve paid the very reasonable price of $80 for a chartered bus seat, a ticket in the right field stands to watch the Chicago...
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