Stuff

I am behind in my reading.

1. On May 28th, the New York Times ran a good article, "Passengers May Now Pirouette to Gate 3," about choreography and placemaking, about how David Rockwell applies such concepts to building design, including the new JetBlue Terminal at Kennedy Airport. While the story is no longer online for free, the multimedia presentation, including more images than were included with the printed story is still online here: Audio Slide Show: Dance and Space.

Union Square, Placemaking elements.

2. Washcycle is arguably the best area blog about bicycling issues. The leading entry right now is about "The High Cost of Driving." Good information.

3. Interestingly enough, and related to the Washcycle entry, while working out conceptually my idea of "transit-shed planning" as mentioned in an earlier blog entry (think of not equally sized but concentric circles representing five, ten, and fifteen minute walking distances, biking distances, drive and drop off, drive and park, and bus, not to mention car sharing), I was
I'm thinking like this in terms of transit-shed planning.

looking again at some consumer research about transit on the Montgomery County Ride On site, this report "Commuting Behavior Research: Bethesda and Friendship Heights-February 2000."

It proves that the best way to increase transit usage it to eliminate free employer-provided parking.

4. And Will Fleishell and Steve Pinkus of the DC Alley Dwellers Alliance call our attention to this nice paper on parking, "Should Planners Under-Provide Car Parking?"

Index Keywords: urban-design-placemaking; car-culture; parking; bicycling; transit