Showing posts with label planning. Show all posts
Showing posts with label planning. Show all posts
Thursday, June 06, 2019

Multi-modal planning to break the pattern of automobile dependency.

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"Many current planning practices reinforce a cycle of increased automobile use, more automobile-oriented community redevelopment, an...
Saturday, May 04, 2019

Lausanne, Switzerland: "Can you correct the planning blunders of the past and modernize an older city without endangering its soul?"

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Contrast this to Deaf Gahan's traditional approach. This year, Lausanne has been piloting a radically inclusive public consultatio...
Sunday, March 31, 2019

"Domicology" is a new way to fight blight before buildings are even constructed.

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I'm sure this number will jump out at you, too: "The U.S. reached a record high of 7.4 million abandoned homes in 2012." Hom...
Tuesday, August 28, 2018

Not often in New Albany, but imagining "what the world might look like if the people who designed it – politicians, planners, developers and architects – were more diverse."

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OMG. Mayor Jeff Gahan's pathological need for complete civic thought control has manifested itself in the form of institutional inb...
Monday, June 25, 2018

"Here are three steps that would make our cities work for people of all ages."

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Jeff "Swish" Gahan takes three down the middle of the plate -- and the bat never left his shoulder. Maybe it's time for s...
Saturday, December 02, 2017

New rules of thumb in transportation planning provide thumbnails for scoring local political aspirants.

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It occurred to me to backdate this post to 2004, thus providing enough time for 4th district councilman Pat McLaughlin to methodically c...
Wednesday, March 29, 2017

"Not all development is fiscally productive. Urbanization, or more accurately, sub-urbanization, is not necessarily prosperity."

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File under "Things that occur to me as I listen to the mayor brag about Breakwater and Summit Springs." Or, "Things that...
Wednesday, August 24, 2016

Toll readiness as defined by ... by ... by ... say, what is this, invisible ink?

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Yes, that's the one.* Yesterday with open arms we welcomed cynicism back into our lives. It had been nearly thirty minutes, and ...
Monday, August 15, 2016

Google New Albany? We'll just have the same architectural firm build another pole barn and stick it on a hill by State Street.

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It's easy to be skeptical of such a vision, and Google's initial efforts were rejected by local planning authorities, although th...
Saturday, April 16, 2016

It's a good thing we paved 5th Street eight months ago. It should last until 2023.

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Shhh ... don't mention the war, and don't EVER mention 5th Street when the corporate attorney's in earshot.
Saturday, February 20, 2016

It's coming around again, folks: What about downtown parking problems and/or solutions?

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It has been only six months since this was posted, but the Green Mouse reports that word on the street is "the parking wars have beg...
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Thursday, November 12, 2015

ON THE AVENUES: The mayor’s race was about suburban-think versus urban-think. The wrong-think won.

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ON THE AVENUES: The mayor’s race was about suburban-think versus urban-think. The wrong-think won. A weekly web column by Roger A. Baylo...
Wednesday, August 05, 2015

Downtown parking solutions?

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After I reposted at NAC 's facebook page, there was a question: "So what would be a possible fix?" Baylor for Mayor: On par...
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Tuesday, July 28, 2015

Baylor for Mayor: On parking "opportunities" in downtown New Albany.

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Thanks to JS for the Google Map view. There is a popular perception that downtown New Albany has a parking problem. This perception is ...
Friday, July 24, 2015

Water Parking: Wait no more, for the Great Oz has spoken.

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Fundamentally cleaner. Mayor Jeff Gahan has faxed a statement from the surreal depths of his down-low bunker. Holy Family has been ...
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Sunday, June 07, 2015

Defending hated buildings, and building a better New Albany.

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Empire State Plaza, Albany NY (from the article) One of the central misnomers about historic preservation is that is espoused to the ex...
Tuesday, July 22, 2014

Point taken: "New Albany is further behind conceptually than kindergarten."

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Yesterday we went to kindergarten. Smart growth, holistic cities ... and New Albany as conceptual kindergarten. As pertains to any cons...
Monday, July 21, 2014

Smart growth, holistic cities ... and New Albany as conceptual kindergarten.

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As pertains to any consideration of "smart growth" in the context of New Albany, it is vitally important not to forget the old jok...
Thursday, July 03, 2014

Shhh, you'll wake up John: "Noise reduction (as) part of the city planning process."

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Imagine that: Slower traffic speeds to help reduce noise. Can someone tell John Rosenbarger? Hint: wait until he's finished laughing....
Thursday, June 05, 2014

John Gonder does not do gesture politics.

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Thank heavens for that. Main Entry: gesture politics Part of Speech: n Definition: any political action focused on public opin...