Showing posts with label placemaking. Show all posts
Showing posts with label placemaking. Show all posts
Wednesday, January 31, 2018

"Traffic and road capacity are not the inevitable result of growth. They are the product of very deliberate choices that have been made to shape our communities around the private automobile."

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Think of it as a goal for 2020 and beyond. STREETS AS PLACES: HOW TRANSPORTATION CAN CREATE A SENSE OF COMMUNITY , Project for Public ...
Monday, September 04, 2017

When humans outrank anchors 'n' autos: "It’s not about making all cities like Amsterdam. It’s about making them better versions of themselves.”

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Well, at least the hue and cry over Spring Street bike lanes recently repainted   ( they've actually been there since 2009 ) has less...
Wednesday, July 26, 2017

"Signature" taco walks are nice and all, but here area few random ideas among many that orgs like DNA might embrace to grow downtown every day, not every now and then.

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The Louisville Independent Business Alliance (LIBA) has drawn up a strategic plan. LIBA stages the occasional event, but also pursues pro...
Tuesday, January 17, 2017

"Chamber Musicians Take to the Streets," and daddy wants some Shostakovich on the plaza.

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Not Takin' It to the Streets , which was a Doobie Brothers hit (shall we say) prior to the birth of younger readers. This is chamber m...
Wednesday, December 28, 2016

SHANE'S EXCELLENT NEW WORDS: Placemaking and the gentle art of nixing community stakeholders when applying lipstick to an alley.

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Welcome to another installment of  SHANE'S EXCELLENT NEW WORDS , a regular Wednesday feature at NA Confidential . But why all these ne...
Tuesday, December 27, 2016

Is it the Onion? News and Tribune? NA Confidential? Nah, it's just a Duggins-ism, 'cuz "New Albany approves bid to transform alley into 'more of a place.'"

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It's getting creepy surreal, for real.  Make no mistake: We're honored to have been the source of this idea (June of 2915, bel...
Monday, November 28, 2016

An "artsy" refit for the waterfront skate park? Sure, but why has City Hall allowed it to become an "eyesore," anyway?

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You know, adjacent to the neglected amphitheater.  With no disrespect to the Carnegie's Daniel Pfalzgraf, who has identified a viab...
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Monday, July 11, 2016

"What we have to address now is making livable, healthy, safe, and sustainable cities," (Jan) Gehl says.

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Photo credit.  Go to the article for the details. As always, the point isn't so much that New Albany should embrace outright such i...
Thursday, April 21, 2016

"Streets can once again become thriving, livable environments for people, not just cars."

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The topic paragraph speaks directly to New Albany's degraded condition, and the inability/unwillingness of the city's "leade...
Tuesday, October 27, 2015

The Baylor for Mayor meme, October 27: Placemaking is about people, Jeff.

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From June 25, 2015: Adam cringes: "What If We Reinvented Civic Infrastructure Around Placemaking?"
Friday, August 14, 2015

Please, let's start "educating community leaders about placemaking."

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I consider this a must-read. It's what we're saying. They're ideas that matter. Hmm -- wonder if David Duggins has finished re...
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 ...
Thursday, June 25, 2015

Adam cringes: "What If We Reinvented Civic Infrastructure Around Placemaking?"

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Think about the massively expensive "places" recently created by municipal government in New Albany: Bicentennial Park, River Run ...
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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Tuesday, March 10, 2015

We have roads, but we have no streets. Time for a change.

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A street in Brooklyn (from the article). A street in New Albany. One by one, day after day, we post these statements of transformat...
Friday, August 23, 2013

Houston Jones, and planning for people and places.

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First I saw this quote on Twitter. “If you plan cities for cars and traffic, you get cars and traffic. If you plan for people and places...
Sunday, April 28, 2013

Slumlords have their own view of placemaking.

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An appropriate thought for the conclusion of a week that saw Carl Malysz land a new job further up I-65 might well be brief contemplation...
Friday, February 15, 2013

Another instance of rightsizing: "Improved Safety and Pedestrian Experience."

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Quite possibly I'm repeating myself, but so be it. Here's an excellent example of what New Albany needs to be considering ... not IN...
Sunday, January 27, 2013

These being the community principles we ignore in New Albany.

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In New Albany, starting about a year and a half ago, a process was initiated to spend more than a million bucks toward creating a place -- i...
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...