Showing posts with label better by design. Show all posts
Showing posts with label better by design. Show all posts
Sunday, August 30, 2020

Beginnings: Origin Park plans are revealed.

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The build-out of  Origin Park  is beginning in earnest. Last Thursday the plans were revealed. The presentation by Guillermo (Gil) Pena...
Saturday, June 06, 2020

Design Justice seeks to dismantle the privilege and power structures that use architecture as a tool of oppression and sees it as an opportunity to envision radically just spaces centered on the liberation of disinherited communities.

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Greg Fischer stopped reading after the first paragraph and went back to pretending he actually matters. Do better than Fischer. Read th...
Wednesday, May 20, 2020

A book to look for this summer: "Right of Way: Race, Class, and the Silent Epidemic of Pedestrian Deaths in America."

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If anyone cocooned within the bunker-bound Team Gahan inner ruling circle would like to read this book, I'll buy it for them. It limi...
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Tuesday, February 25, 2020

A potpourri of the cringeworthy: "Urban Dinosaurs: It's Time These 8 Things Went Extinct In Our Cities."

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This sounds familiar. A lot of suburban chain retailers have been wrangled by city regulations into moving their parking to the side o...
Thursday, January 02, 2020

ON THE AVENUES: On patience, grieving, puzzles and a necessary sabbatical.

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How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees? Thou know'st we work by wit, and not by witchcra...
Monday, December 23, 2019

Council district survey results are in, and Bob Caesar remains abjectly clueless about street and road issues.

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Who gets quoted the most? The one who comprehends the least. Welcome to governance, New Gahanian Style. DESIGN DESIGN DESIGN, you blither...
Saturday, May 25, 2019

Abbey Road on the River illustrates the value of purposeful park design.

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As usual, I had a good time volunteering to help populate the SoIn tourism bureau booth at Abbey Road on the River. I was there Thursd...
Saturday, April 13, 2019

Routine traffic stops? "Let's stop using the terrible design of our cities as a random pretext and, instead, be proactive about fixing the design."

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I'm having trouble finding the extract from this essay that best conveys the central point, so I've chosen two. Routine Traffi...
Saturday, March 30, 2019

#SlowTheCars: "We need to design our streets so that drivers feel unsafe driving at speeds that are unsafe."

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Our urban streets will not be safe until we slow cars. We won't make a significant dent in slowing cars if our toolbox is a combinat...
Thursday, November 29, 2018

GREEN MOUSE SAYS: The curious case of the speeding ticket, the honest cop, his fuming chief and the city's abject failure to calm downtown traffic.

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The Green Mouse leaned back and drank deeply from his gunmetal flask, the one with the engraved inscription by Gilby Clarke, former guitar...
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Sunday, November 25, 2018

"The mere existence of a park does not ensure that a community benefits from it."

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Imagine having public discussion and community input before  city government borrows millions of dollars, to be repaid by your grandchild...
Tuesday, September 18, 2018

"If we continue to absolve our urban design of any wrongdoing with these deaths, how are we ever going to make positive changes?"

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No matter your station in in life, here's a reminder that if you fancy yourself "progressive," but believe city streets are m...
Wednesday, September 27, 2017

"Carmel, Indiana, is showing suburbs how to go big on biking."

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Holy Caesar! A councilman who rides a bike? Meanwhile, it's almost as if Carmel has a plan . Just imagine if Jeff Gahan had coher...
Tuesday, September 26, 2017

Louisville "Streets for People" series is worth a read by New Albanians, because two-way traffic is only the end of the beginning.

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We covered the first in Chris Glasser's informative Insider Louisville series here: Us, too: "Louisville’s roads need to be ...
Tuesday, February 21, 2017

ASK THE BORED: "Design Is Better Than Enforcement To Make Cities Safer For Everyone."

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Last week, there was a rear-guard action. I'm not here to pick on Mr. Peterson. As you can see from the minutes of Valentine's Da...
Saturday, November 07, 2015

Once again: "The design of a street, more so than any posted speed limit sign, invites drivers to go fast or slow."

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You'll have to click through to see the photo, which contrasts an overbuilt street with a right-sized street. The photo was assembled...
Thursday, May 21, 2015

"Protected bike lanes are now official federal policy."

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Photo credit: People for Bikes Recognize these "star-spangled" ideas? They're integral to Jeff Speck's Downtown Str...
Sunday, May 17, 2015

The "solution is density," in which small parks play a design role.

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There is no room for creative design downtown?  Red = blank urban fabric . Once New Albany had a grand post office at the corner of Spr...
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Saturday, October 11, 2014

With Main Street's botched deforestation plan almost complete, soon we'll be turning our lonely eyes to Jeff Speck.

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When this or any other mayoral administration trumpets its achievements, consider the notion of opportunity cost. Given that there never ...
Friday, August 15, 2014

Delicious reading: "The Suburbs Made Us Fat."

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Fat, but broke; Floyd County's skint again . Tell you what, Jim -- how 'bout us city folks keep paying double so you don't have ...