Showing posts with label Project for Public Spaces. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Project for Public Spaces. Show all posts
Monday, August 08, 2016

Streets are our most fundamental shared public spaces, but Irv and Bob and Padgett won't grasp this in a thousand million years.

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As I contemplate yet again the abysmal ignorance of New Albany's self-assigned community pillars ... there's this wonderful video...
Sunday, July 19, 2015

Ethan Kent interview: Placemaking as antidote to "top-down solutions."

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Given that so many of the New Albany governing clique's stalwarts view the sexist, racist and anti-Semitic myth merchant Walt Disney as ...
Sunday, December 01, 2013

"Great Parks We Can Learn From."

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In many ways, parks expansion has become a prime motif of the Gahan mayoral term to date. Now we have an independent city parks department, ...
Saturday, January 12, 2013

Not parking: "Creating places where people enjoy spending time."

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Another longer read, but well worth it. Included are "10 Questions to Help Us Get the Most Out of Parking," and when you answ...
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Monday, October 08, 2012

Bicentennial Park, Part Two: "When did the public input process into this park's location, imagined functions, design, and construction occur?"

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Recently, when existing trees abruptly began falling, New Albanians became aware that we're in the process of building a $750,000 Bicent...

Bicentennial Park, Part One: "Whom Does Design Really Serve?"

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Professionals are against participation because it destroys the arcane privileges of specialization, unveils the professional secret, strips...
Sunday, April 19, 2009

He's baaacck ...

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As Bluegill noted at the time: This is another textbook case of "I'm ignorant and angry about it." Well, he's even angrier...
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Thursday, April 16, 2009

Open thread: Entitled to one's own opinions on two-way streets, but not one's own facts?

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Here are two viewpoints on the merits of two-way street conversions. The first comes from a Tribune reader (scroll to the bottom): LETTERS:...
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