Rebuilding Place in the Urban Space

"A community’s physical form, rather than its land uses, is its most intrinsic and enduring characteristic." [Katz, EPA] This blog focuses on place and placemaking and all that makes it work--historic preservation, urban design, transportation, asset-based community development, arts & cultural development, commercial district revitalization, tourism & destination development, and quality of life advocacy--along with doses of civic engagement and good governance watchdogging.

Tuesday, December 13, 2005

Who is transit for anyway?

Clyde Haberman's column in today's New York Times, "Pauline, Again, Lashed to the Rails" (not online for free...) makes the point that in the current negotiations to head off a (illegal) transit workers strike in NYC that "perhaps a riders' representative deserves to be seated alonside the union and the authority as contract negotiations enter their most intense phase. Someone needs to remind them, in case they have forgotten, that they both work for us, those who ride the trains."

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