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A Question of Nomenclature: What is a Neighborhood?
What, exactly, is a neighborhood? People on all sides of the urban conversation talk about neighborhoods, trotting them out to support everything from transit oriented development to the suburban status quo, from Smart Growth to no growth. Formal definitions vary, but few include criteria beyond a set of distinctive characteristics shared by a contiguous geographic area inhabited by people who behave neighborly. Which, despite its vagueness, sounds sensible enough. Imprecise, but sensible. And yet, when I think about the neighborhoods I’ve lived in, or spent time in, few of them fit even this ambiguous definition.
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Posted in Sarasota, What if?, Josh Grigsby, Culture, History, walkable, Personal Experiences, vernacular architecture, urban design, urban planning, Nomenclature
Tagged walkable, boston, Santa Monica, pedestrians, New Urbanism, Cambridge, Sarasota, Main Street, Florida, Laurel Park, Burns Square, neighborhood, electricity, Smart Growth, transit-oriented development, city planning, Pacific Palisades, American urbanism, Jane Jacobs, Nomenclature, village, small town, neighborhood association, urban, surburban, definition of neighborhood, Greater New Orleans Community Data Center, tourists, Tamiami Trail, zoning, Towles Court, community planning, convenience shopping, planning theory, Mongols, Siege of Baghdad, Margaritaville, Back BAy, Montana Avenue, Providence, Methyl Street, Harvard Square, North End
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from FASLANYC: You Only Go to Midtown if You’re a Masochist
The NYALSA President’s Dinner was held in NYC this past week and one of the guests of honor was DOT commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan. In the last three years Sadik-Khan has reached cult status here in the city; she is a potent combination of geeky transportation guru, guerilla designer, and hipster chic. She gives talks with Mitchell Joachim and David Byrne, Transportation Alternatives chief Paul Steely “Don’t call me Steely” White is a big fan, and she initiated the popular Summer Streets program, all while holding court in Albany and ruthlessly expanding bike lines and pedestrian amenities throughout the city. She’s got a cadre of young upstarts in her department that think bikers and pedestrians have priority over the maniacal cab drivers and trash trucks, and sometimes she even takes their side.
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Posted in FASLANYC, Livability, Placemaking, Rants, Shout Outs, Transportation
Tagged Albany, bike lanes, bollards, Broadway, Central Park, Columbus Circle, congestion-easing, David Byrne, DOT, FASLANYC, Flatiron Building, green bike lanes, Green Light for Midtown, Herald Square, Janette Sadik-Khan, landscape architecture, Madison Square Park, Manhattan grid, Midtown Manhattan, Mitchell Joachim, New York City, NYALSA President's Dinner, Paul Steely White, pedestrians, Project for Public Spaces, public space, Street Design Manual, street vendors, Summer Streets Program, Times Square, TKTS booth, traffic, Transportation, Union Square
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