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Sprawl or Ratchet: Prince George’s False Equivalency | Straßgefühl

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The urban machinery of virginia and beyond. Sprawl or Ratchet: Prince George’s False Equivalency. Like Konterra, National Harbor and almost anything else that gets green-lit in Prince George’s County outside of the College Park corridor over the past twenty years, it’s in the middle of nothing. Equally inconvenient to six distant and practically barren Metrorail stations that are ripe for development. Yet the leadership of Prince George’s doesn’t. As some influential Prince Georgians would see it, suburb...

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WMATA Wants a Circle Line | Straßgefühl

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The urban machinery of virginia and beyond. WMATA Wants a Circle Line. Faced with a serious existing core capacity crush – something that’s expected to get worse when the Silver Line spreads rolling stock even thinner, at least in the interim – WMATA has decided the best long-term solution for downtown is a circle line. In the early 1980s, and more recently proposed the current Rush Plus service changes as a bifurcated blue line that intersected with itself. On one hand, this is overstated. The conce...

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The Question Of Affinity, viz. Craziness/Smelliness | Straßgefühl

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The urban machinery of virginia and beyond. The Question Of Affinity, viz. Craziness/Smelliness. Why I talk about intersectional affinity sometimes when I talk about urbanism, from a friend. The last paragraph is golden, and addresses something I regularly have problems with, to be frank:. You want me to ignore class, which is produced by material relations of production, and organize ourselves around class- posterior. Forms of subjectivity like sexuality and race! Would anyone believe that? You are comm...

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I Could Have Parked A Thousand More If They Only Knew They Were Cars | Straßgefühl

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The urban machinery of virginia and beyond. I Could Have Parked A Thousand More If They Only Knew They Were Cars. The M Street bike lane is falling apart. The root of Washington’s traditional power base is the black church, even after many affluent worshippers decamped to Prince George’s. The spatial dynamics of this influence on any given Sunday. About a conflict between bicycles and parking. Having already pressured DDOT to provide ample parking (despite two or three adjacent parking garages) on a four...

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The Rise Of The New New New New New New New New York | Straßgefühl

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The urban machinery of virginia and beyond. The Rise Of The New New New New New New New New York. I’ve read “The Rise Of The New New Left”, that Peter Beinart essay that’s been going around. Which often seems asymmetrical – but it probably means a larger systemic rebalancing act is in the works. DeBlasio also ran on the platform of generally being less racist and more class-conscious, which drove Bloomberg insane. And made him more electable in the end than Quinn. New York’s AIDS history. 8211; but I don...

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Architectural Fallout: 01/01/2009 - 02/01/2009

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Friday, January 30, 2009. Having recently moved to the city, I have a new found hatred for potholes. About a month into living in Somerville. I busted into a pothole crossing the bridge on Western Ave., and had the unique pleasure of changing a flat in the veritable no-man's-land that is the Mass Pike on a rainy December night. It could be for this reason that I think the map at Boston.com. Above is so great. Know we're onto their massive asphalt pilfering scheme [that's how potholes are formed, right?

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Architectural Fallout: Ted Kennedy

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Friday, August 28, 2009. At a 1978 Healthcare Policy Workshop, via boston.com. I believe Massachussians like myself were truly spoiled by such effective representation. Through Government Center, Southie, and finally to the JFK Library in Dorchester, representing the indelible mark he left on Boston, Massachusetts, and the United States as a whole. Thank you Senator, and rest in peace. Boston.com has a wealth of information about his life and death here. Ist of dignitaries attending his funeral. Somervil...

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Upcoming Event: Future of WMATA Panel | Straßgefühl

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The urban machinery of virginia and beyond. Upcoming Event: Future of WMATA Panel. I have made shamefully little comment on the slow collapse of WMATA (and still have some words on the “Millennial urbanism” of Tysons and the Silver Line upcoming), but there’s a panel next monday. Intimating what we might be able to do about it. By JD Hammond on March 16, 2015. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Address never made public).

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Architectural Fallout: 103/700 = 14%

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Monday, May 21, 2007. Fourteen percent of 700. This is gonna take forever. At this rate, it could take 5 or more years. Realistically, my total number of IDP. Training units is currently around 205, but the form I gave to my boss this afternoon only went up to this February. So there's been some progress since then. Maybe it's not so far off. Time does fly now that school is over, as it's been two years out. In California, Pennsylvania. Yes, well, no I'm not actually an architect. Right, 'intern arch...