"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.
See the Associated Press story, "18 children among 27 dead in Conn. school shooting
Labels: electoral politics and influence, gun laws
posted by Richard Layman @ 3:01 PM&Permanent Link
I am an urban/commercial district revitalization and transportation/mobility advocate and consultant. I was a principal in BicyclePASS, a bicycle facilities systems integration firm, based in Washington, DC. Now I'm in Salt Lake City for family reasons. Urban economic competitiveness is dependent on efficient transit and mixed use, compact places. Therefore, I end up writing a lot about mobility and urban design. I still own a house in DC, so I write a lot about Washington, DC issues. I try to write so that "universal lessons" are evident in the entries, regardless of the place.
Jane's (Jacobs) Walks, first weekend in May
Parking Day, 3rd Friday in September
Western Baltimore County Pedestrian and Bicycle Access Plan
Baltimore County Pedestrian and Bicycle Legislation
Cambridge, Maryland Commercial District Revitalization Framework Plan
Easy print Florida Market Directory
Florida Market Map & Directory
Urban Safeway Design Misses Mark op-ed, WBJ
Temper Walmart Glee with Planning op-ed, WBJ
ANC4B Large Tract Review Report on Walmart, 5/2011
ANC4B Large Tract Review Report on Walmart, Summary Recommendations
Bordercross Communications (Corinna Moebius)
This is None: Storytelling by Design
Capital City Market (w/Frozen Tropics)
Dr. Transit/League of Transit Doctors
3 Comments:
What do you suggest that would not be an inmense waste of resources?
gun control + better mental health services.
The NRA has clearly won. We're all supposed to be patriotic Americans and just suck it up that this is the cost of "liberty" and our freedoms. We must be armed to the hilt in order to defend against a tyrannical government. Meanwhile we tolerate domestic terrorism on a daily basis. You see where this is going. NRA: arm the teachers! then eventually a teacher will lose it and off his/her classroom, so the logical solution to that, NRA: arm the kindergartners!
It will only get worse. Now what with all the "stand your ground" legislation, people will just blow the brains out of anybody who looks at them funny, claiming they felt threatened or intimidated. It will never end.
BTW: 20 1st graders = "tremendous waste of resources"
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