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.

Monday, July 21, 2008

Optimal mobility


Big blue P parking sign
Originally uploaded by Monceau
(Flickr image of a "big blue parking sign" by Monceau.)

Greater Greater Washington calls attention to my response to the e-thread in themail, the city's twice weekly e-newsletter on good government, about the article in the Post from a couple weeks ago, on rebalancing mobility away from automobile-centricity, in "Auto-centric "imprinting" and our consumer products."

Someone wrote to me, at least not anonymously, stating that I am "FOS," although he spelled it out.

Change is difficult.
Metropolis Magazine.jpg
Image by Kimberly Viviano, Viviano + Company. For a feature on "Big Ideas" in Metropolis Magazine. A system of signs posted along Chicago's lakefront would inform drivers and bicyclists of the human, financial, and environmental benefits of riding a bike to work versus driving a car.

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