Search Results for: Jane Jacobs

links for 2006-06-27

Dulles Rail Project: The Big Picture Local blogger writes about the Dulles rail project. Mid-block crosswalks, L’Enfant and Jane Jacobs and the eastern quadrants Richard Layman on the need for more crosswalks in DC

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links for 2006-05-01

washingtonpost.com: Best Bets 2006 The Washington Post’s annual reader poll often includes corporate chains as the “best” in a variety of categories. Outgrowing Jane Jacobs and Her New York – New York Times Column critiques Jane Jacobs and raises some interesting points. Although not focusing on race or inequality her book does include some ideas […]

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Good Urbanism In Downtown Detroit

When I was in Michigan last week on vacation I took a trip to downtown Detroit with my girlfriend Libby to go ice skating at Campus Martius Park and dine in Mexicantown in the city’s Southwest side. Campus Martius park re-opened in 2004 after undergoing a major upgrade to coincide with the recent opening of […]

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Pabst City Project Falls Through

Two years and two days ago, I blogged about a massive urban redevelopment project planned for the former brewery of Pabst Blue Ribbon in Milwaukee, Wisconsin called Pabst City. The project was mind-boggling in scale: it was to cost over $300 million to convert seven blocks of the brewery’s historic structures into stores, apartments, and […]

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Bush’s Summer Reading

I was quoted by the Washington Examiner today about what Bush should be reading on his summer vacation. Here’s what I suggested: ‘Walking With the Wind,’ by John Lewis. I’d tell President Bush to read this book because every American should read it. John Lewis is an American hero. ‘The Berenstain Bears And The Bully,’ […]

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Once again, Jane Jacobs is vindicated: safety isn’t determined by police, locks, chains, or elaborate security consulting firms, devices, electric fences, or even tasers, but simply the presence of a few people around to keep an eye (or an ear) out for trouble. Here’s the text of an Ann Arbor News article from today titled […]

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The new Borders in downtown Detroit is apparently a strategy of Borders Incorporated and other major retailers to move into “underserved” urban neighborhoods before they fully gentrify. I see this as an ambiguous trend – it could be part of a pattern of donut development where economic activity in the metropolis is either “downtown” or […]

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