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CityCentric Charlotte: July 2015
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Ideas and observations on city-building. Monday, July 20, 2015. Charlotte streetcar technology: 1915 vs. 2015. Charlotte's streetcars started July 14, 2015, 77 years since last running in 1938, and 2015's first streetcar/car crash occurred on July 18 - why? That question's still up in the air with safety investigators, etc., but another question arising from this considers 1915 technology vs. 2015 technology. Charlotte is currently running three Gomaco. On Charlotte's current Gomaco vehicles. Costs are t...
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CityCentric Charlotte: June 2014
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Ideas and observations on city-building. Thursday, June 26, 2014. Pedestrian retrofit in Concord, NC. I recently visited Concord, NC. A city of 80,000 just northeast of Charlotte, and came across what I consider to be a pretty innovative pedestrian retrofit of an existing bridge (see images below). Given, it's not an ideal pedestrian setting, but it's certainly a meaningful design modification in recognition of existing pedestrian traffic. Flex-poles are often used on bicycle cycle tracks. Building a bri...
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The Naked City Blog: May 2014
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The Naked City Blog. Exploring life in the city – Charlotte – and the greater metro region. Looking at urban design, transportation, growth, the built environment and more. Mary Newsom is a lifelong journalist and observer of city life in the Charlotte region and beyond, with a focus on urban design, sustainable development, growth and city planning. She is associate director of urban and regional affairs at the UNC Charlotte Urban Institute. Whats been keeping me busy? There was an error in this gadget.
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Plastics | Keeping Watch
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Engage, inform, and inspire. 8216;Worthless if polluted’ video. 2016 Events and Exhibitions. 2016: Air & Trees. What is KEEPING WATCH? KEEPING WATCH 2016: EXPLORING CHARLOTTE'S AIR QUALITY and TREE CANOPY. February 24, 2015. February 5, 2016. February 24, 2014. February 8, 2016. See the below articles on plancharlotte.org. The story behind your recycling bin. Why you can't toss these into your recycling bin. Lacking incentives, some Mecklenburg businesses lag in recycling.
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proper scale: Forays into an "Incremental Urbanism": Mashing Lean Urbanism + Strong Towns Resilience + Frequent Transit Grids
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Monday, September 22, 2014. Forays into an "Incremental Urbanism": Mashing Lean Urbanism Strong Towns Resilience Frequent Transit Grids. Lean Urbanism" in Charlotte. My team's Park(ing) Day parklet, a shipping container "homestead unit" microfarm. It has been quite an active past week and half! By the way, if you are scratching your head and wondering how Jarrett's work of late appreciates an "incremental" approach to urbanism, I invite you to carefully read Chapter 15 "On the Boulevard" of his book.
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CityCentric Charlotte: Memorial Stadium .. forgotten?
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Ideas and observations on city-building. Friday, July 10, 2015. Memorial Stadium . forgotten? Major League Soccer (MLS) may consider an expansion team in Charlotte, but would this come at the expense of our historic built environment? That's the impression given by a June 26 Charlotte Observer article discussing demolition. Since we're in 2015 and just over 100 years removed from World War I, does this give us license to demolish history? And raised some good questions about alternate sites:. Stadium....
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CityCentric Charlotte: The "Wow" Factor vs. Small is Beautiful
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Ideas and observations on city-building. Friday, February 20, 2015. The "Wow" Factor vs. Small is Beautiful. Does sound economic development rest on big projects that deliver a "Wow" Factor? Or are smaller, more incremental projects a better long-term solution for cities? These are questions being asked in Charlotte regarding the Bojangles Colesium and the former Eastland Mall site. And as Charlotte City Council member John Autry noted, "I've had it up to here with 'Wow'! Make some 'small plans'. Decades...
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CityCentric Charlotte: May 2014
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Ideas and observations on city-building. Tuesday, May 20, 2014. Views from above Atlanta to Salt Lake City. I'm attending a conference in Salt Lake City, so I thought I'd share some images from the trip here. After departing Atlanta, I soon saw the mighty Mississippi River, with oxbow lakes remaining from previous bends of the river (below). Next, we passed over the gently undulating Ozark Mountains (below). See the river course? I knew we'd hit the Front Range of the Rockies when snow appeared (below)!
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CityCentric Charlotte: February 2015
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Ideas and observations on city-building. Friday, February 20, 2015. The "Wow" Factor vs. Small is Beautiful. Does sound economic development rest on big projects that deliver a "Wow" Factor? Or are smaller, more incremental projects a better long-term solution for cities? These are questions being asked in Charlotte regarding the Bojangles Colesium and the former Eastland Mall site. And as Charlotte City Council member John Autry noted, "I've had it up to here with 'Wow'! Make some 'small plans'. Decades...
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Uncategorized | City and Place
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Is the bell tolling for the parked car? October 12, 2015. Laura Ingalls Wilder traveling in the covered wagon – Image Source: pcraig.iweb.bsu.edu/LIW/childhood.html. When our children are in the third grade we read the. There are many examples of this in recent times: In 1977, the home computer was invented and in less than two decades, it became a ubiquitous part of the developed world’s workplaces and homes. In 1991, the mobile phone (then the heavy bag phone) was introduced for mass-market consump...
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