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"Why Paris Tore Down A Highway To Build A Tram" - Sensato (2024)
"Mister Rogers - the Anti-NIMBY" - twin city sidewalks (March 7, 2016)
"Should Cities be Circles?" - City Beautiful (February 28, 2024)
Elizabeth Street Garden [Save!!!!!]
"The Big Dig Transformed Boston,; So Why do the Controversies Define the Project?" - GBH News (November 15, 2023)
"Why We Need Solarpunk, Ecosocialist, and Degrowth-Oriented Cities" - Our Changing Climate (June 28, 2024)
Why Our Buildings Suck, and How to Change Them" - DW Planet A (2022)
"Kmart in the 70s & 80s - Why We LOVED IT" The History Lounge (2024)
"Plans Show New Walkways Over Busy Midtown Streets" - Mayor of Omaha, Jean Stothert (May 31, 2024)
"What's the Point of Pocket Parks?" - City Cast DC (Jun 13, 2024)
"The Problem With New York's Skyscrapers" - Tomorrow's Build (2023)
Newly Built: "Are housing Developers Creating Future Slums by Converting Old Offices?" - Evan Edinger May 12, 2024)
"Are the Suburbs Getting Worse?" - City Beautiful (May 31, 2024)
"These Are the NIMBY-est Cities In the U.S." - City Nerd (June 5, 2024)
"Amtrak's BRAND NEW Interiors: Overnight on the California Zephyr!" -Lonestar Trip Reports (May 11, 2024)
"Paris, the City of Love, is reclaiming its streets from cars to create a more livable, eco-friendly environment. With
the world watching during the Olympic Games, Mayor Anne Hidalgo is driving radical changes, reducing air pollution, and giving
more space to people and nature. But not everyone agrees. Can Paris become a model for sustainable urban living, or will the
resistance be too strong?"
"How Central Park Was Created Entirely By Design and Not By Nature' - Architectural Digest (November 14, 2023)
"What Makes a Successful Place?" - Project for Public Places
Great Public Space is: ST. CHARLES AVENUE STREETCAR LINE, NEW ORLEANS, LA, USA - Project for Public Spaces
Italy proves that towers/skysrapers are signs of division:
"How Urban Design Keeps South Africa Segregated" - Bloomberg Originals (May 27, 2024)
"Why Did we make Front Yard Businesses Illegal?" - About Here (2021)
"How to Bring Back Front Yard Businesses" - About Here (2022)
"Could this be a Solution to Gentrification?" - About Here (October 2023)
STAIRS: "Why North America Can't Build Nice Apartments (because of one rule)- About Here (Dec 11, 2023)
"How a 23-Year-Old Solved Urban Sprawl" - The B1M (May 17, 2023)
Phoenix: "Redesigning America's Hottest City Before It Melts" - Tomorrow's Build (October 2022)
'Cool Pavement' Being Used To Combat Hot Temps In Urban Heat Islands - FOX Weather (July 2023)
"Heat Diaries: What it's Like Living Through Phoenix's Historic Heat Wave" PBS NewsHour (July 2023)
"How Warsaw Improves its City Center (with Michal Lejk) - City for All (May 2024)
CITY DESIGN: "Why These Streets Are So Good (Portland)" HINT: Because of Streetcars - City Nerd (April 24th, 2024)
South Bend, Indiana: "Can American Cities Save Themselves? This One Thinks So. - Strong Towns (2023)
Proximity to major roadways has been associated with an increased risk of wheeze illness, asthma and atopy. Previously, most
measures of proximity to major roadways have focused on the spatial heterogeneity associated with the horizontal gradients
of ambient pollutants such as black carbon (BC), particulate matter <2.5 μm (PM2.5), ultrafine particles (UFP), and carbon
monoxide (CO) near highways. ....
Consideration of the relationship between residential floor level and concentration of traffic-related airborne pollutants
may predict individual residential exposure among inner city dwellers more accurately. Our objective was to characterize the
vertical gradient of residential levels of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH; dichotomized into Σ8PAHsemivolatile
(MW 178–206), and Σ8PAHnonvolatile (MW 228–278), black carbon (BC), PM2.5 (particulate matter) by floor level
(FL), season and building type.
Inner city children living in apartment buildings may be exposed to different levels of air pollutants, depending on FL, season
and building type. Consideration of vertical heterogeneity associated with exposure to air pollution may lead to a more accurate
assessment of exposure in cohort research. These results may have substantial implications for diseases known to be influenced
or triggered by exposure to air pollution, such as asthma."
"Climate Change and Social Vulnerability in the United States: A Focus on Six Impacts" - Environmental Protection Agency (2021)
"Why Jakarta is Sinking {for Decades} - Vox (2021)
"Jakarta is sinking! - Equator from the Air" - BBC (2020)
Bangkok, Jakarta, Manila: "Southeast Asian Cities Face Existential Crisis as They Sink While Sea Levels Rise" - "PBS News
Hour" (2023)
"Why North America Can't Build Nice Apartments (Because of One Rule)" - About Here | Urbanarium (2023)
"Convention Centers, March Madness Style" - City Nerd (2024)
London 1.6 billion people exposed to hearing hazards 55+ decibels
Stroke; even cardiovascular disease rose by 8% for every 10 decibels o noise exposure. - World Health Organization
Helmholtz Resonators in Ceramic Bricks absorb Low Frequency Traffic Noise. [Altering Soundscapes in Exterior Environments.]
"Cleanup Efforts Continue in Baltimore Following Street Collapse" - WMAR-2 News (2014)
POST WAR MODERN: "Why People Thought Steel Houses Were a Good idea" -Vox
UNDER CONSTRUCTION (ORGANIZATION)
CLIMATE CRISIS
'Only seven out of 50 cities — Charlotte, Cleveland, Jacksonville, Miami, New Orleans, New York, and Philadelphia —
ranked within the 8-10 range.
'Many cities that have strong plans are coastal cities that have experienced strong hurricanes in the past,' Renne said. 'This
study lends support to the theory that cities do not develop strong evacuation plans, ones that accommodate the needs of all
people, unless they have already experienced a major disaster or are under a threat.'
In the study, 20 cities achieved a moderate ranking, with six cities earning a 'weak' score between 0 and 4. According to
the study, 17 cities — including such major metropolises as Chicago, Los Angeles, Atlanta, and Las Vegas — either
did not have publicly available evacuation plans for carless and vulnerable residents, or emergency managers declined to provide
them. This is especially concerning, the researchers write, as the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency urges cities to
make evacuation plans publicly available before a disaster occurs so citizens can prepare accordingly."
It is the type of trees, which must be native, and part of entire ecosystem canopy restoration.
More focus on "Regional" (monthly meetings) than local - for Baltimore City. Links bring you to federal Homeland
Security. No plan for those who do not have automobiles. Even if every single person had a car, where would people be guided
to go? NO PLAN OF MOVING PEOPLE, & HAVING RESOURCES.
"Citywide Planning'
This group meets on a monthly basis and engages in sustained regional planning to ensure that response and recovery
are coordinated across jurisdictional boundaries. Since its establishment in 2003, the UAWG has developed innovative, interoperable
security and response systems through the work of its functional subcommittees"
"Resources for Residents & Businesses" - Office of Emergency Management
"Emergency Preparedness 101" - Baltimore City Office of Emergency Department
WHAT CAN BALTIMORE REVITALIZATION BECOME?
WHAT CAN BALTIMORE REVITALIZATION BECOME?
TRAINS
President Joe Biden speaks in Baltimore about Replacing B&P Tunnel: Replacing 150-year-old Baltimore and Potomac Tunnel to
Help Relieve Train Bottleneck" - WBAL TV 11 (2023) [Residents Against the Tunnels]
Residents Against the Tunnels
"The trough of disillusionment"
"From high-speed rails to electric planes, why is the U.S. so behind on transportation?"
Subways
WHAT NOT TO DO
Goose Chase: "Why You Can't Walk to America's Newest Train Station" - Alex Davis (2022) [Wawa, PA]
"Cincinnati's Terrible Billion Dollar Sale of its Railroad - Alan Fisher (2023)
STREETS
Pictured and mentions "H Street" in Washington D.C. as model - which has - a streetcar route!
IMAGINE: CONCEIVED TO COMPLETION EXAMPLES
"Designing Open Streets & Plaza Blocks: The Transformation of NYC's 34th Avenue" - Street Films (2023)
Philadelphia: "How to Kill a Stroad" - Alex Davis (2022)
"Why Detroit Is Tearing Down A Highway" - CNBC (2022)
Roundabout Installed: "Second Street in Harrisburg to Transition to Two Ways Next Week" - WGAL TV 8 (2022)
Groningen, The Netherlands
Merwede neighborhood of Utrecht
Toronto Islands: "The Only* Car-Free Neighbourhood in Canada (and why you can't live there) - Not Just Bikes (2022)
WHAT NOT TO DO
"Chicago Doesn't Own Its Own Streets" Climate Town (2023) [Since 2008]
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"Six Baltimore Towers to Love" - Art Blog (2022)
"Developer Incentive (NOFA) 2023 DRAFT"
"Los Angeles Just Proved How Spongy a City Can Be" - Wired (2024)
"You must break the pattern today, or else..." Is freedom truly from a car, or a burden?
Quaker William Fell, an English carpenter and shipbuilder, purchased Lloyd Harris' "Copus Harbor", a 100 acre parcel
on the Patapsco River. He renamed it "Fell's Prospect" (now Fells Point). The Fell Family Cemetery is located
at 1607 Shakespeare Street.
Reader Commentaries: "Baltimore Inner Harbor Proposal Will Change Landscape for Generations to Come" - The Baltimore Sun (February
2024)
"Designing a dream city is easy; rebuilding a living one takes imagination" - Jacobs, 1958
"A 'Ghost River' Is Unearthed in Baltimore" - Bloomberg News (2023)
"Commentary: GBC Must Recognize That Disadvantaged Black Neighborhoods Matter" (2024)
"State Center Market and Conceptual Pre-Development Study RFP August-21st-2023"
"Cities need 'Old Buildings' so badly it's probably 'Impossible' for vigorous streets and districts to grow without
them."
- Jane Jacobs, The Death and Lie of Great American Cities
"It used to look like this - a parking lot with 75 cars parked here. The City Council wanted this to be a nice entrance to
the city center. So the City Council proposed to take away 60; so 15 left. And then the merchants here {points on map} said,
'No! We want them all gone because we're right off the pedestrianized zone where sales are better.'"
How do we share?
"People, take your children to the playground
people, drink the water from the fountain
and use me ~ use me
I'm not yours anymore
than the sparrow owns the tree
I'm not yours anymore
I'm public property
I'm not yours anymore
I belong to everyone ~ everywhere"
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"Wherever the title of streets and parks may rest, they have immemorially been held in trust for the use of the public
and, time out of mind, have been used for purposes of assembly, communicating thoughts between citizens, and
discussing public questions. Such use of the streets and public places has, from ancient times, been a part of
the privileges, immunities, rights, and liberties of citizens." - - Justice Owen J. Roberts’s
opinion in Hague v. Committee for Industrial Organization (1939)
"Claiming Mother Earth -- what none of us has created yet all of us need -- has been a source of debate and
a cause of violence that has never left us. Earth is the source of all material wealth; and good earth (safe and well-located
places for building of cities or fertile soil for growing crops, or mineral-laden lands) are limited in supply. Fertile soil,
lovely vistas, rich mineral deposits, downtown intersections -- these things cannot be relocated or reproduced."
This tired city was somebody’s dream ~ Billboard horizons as black as they seem
A four-level highway across the land ~ We’re building a home for the family of man
Prices are rising, the devil’s to pay ~ Moving the mountain that got in the way
Prayer books and meetings to find a plan ~ Deciding the fate of the family of man
So hard
Whatever are we coming to?
Yes, it’s so hard ~ With so little time and so much to do
Memories replacing the loves that we lost
Burning our bridges as soon as they’re crossed
Factories built where the rivers ran
Time’s running out for the family of man
"The Show You See With Your Heart"
First presented in 1955, this post-war humanist photograph exhibit, curated by Edward Steichen, consists of 503 photographs
by 273 photographers from 68 different countries. It continues to strive, to be a manifesto for peace and fundamental equality
of all people. [Permanent exhibit is housed in Luxembourg.]
- Fred Turner - Associate Professor of Communication and Director, Program in Science, Technology, and Society at Stanford
University (2014)
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This page offers the challenges and solutions regarding all land use. Too much has been taken and sold, with little thought
for most of us. Humans walk. Read the evidence found in column below regarding speed bumps/humps versus "Continuous
Sidewalks," and please visit page, "Walk N' Roll" for pictures and links showcasing just a few of a multitude
of continuous sidewalks around the world. Peace and serenity abound when walkways and school crossings are saving pedestrian
lives through forced intervention.
| Droit à la Ville ~ THE RIGHT TO THE CITY |
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| BOOK BY HENRI LEFEBVRE (1968) |
"If you look at what was happening in cities in the past; the spaces weren't specialized. For example, the market square was
also a gathering place and the place where the people came to express their opinions and political decisions; when they were
consulted for example, which happened quite often because there was an intense urban life. These spaces were multifunctional,
but we have functionalized everything, all the spaces are specialized: the sports area is specialized, which is a considerable
mistake....
Yes, the automobile has killed cities, killed urban life, and it still kills much more than that. It is an extraordinarily
effective instrument of deculturation, of anti-civilization. It is the type of object that is presented as an object of sustainable
consumption and whose obsolescence is arranged in such a way that it deteriorates as quickly as possible." - Henri Lefebvre
"Right To The City" Philosophy - Henri Lefebvre
RIGHT TO THE CITY - Global Platform for the Right to the City (GPR2C)
Sim City video game maker wanted to replicate U.S. cities, but realized that they were too ugly; so made less roads, and shrunk
parking lots.
"Looking for Space" - John Denver
οἰκιστικός ~ EKISTICS
| THE EKISTICS ELEMENTS |
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| Konstantinos Apostolou Doxiades, 1947 [Click for Slideshow] |
| THE EKISTICS CONCEPT THEORY DIAGRAM |
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| Konstantinos Apostolou Doxiades [Click for Slideshow] |
| BALANCED DIVISION OF DOXIDADIS' IDEAL WORLD |
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| Konstantinos Apostolou Doxiades [Illustration by Mint Wallace] Click Picture! |
Kōnstantinos Apostolou Doxiadēs, Architect and Urban Planner
οἰκιστικός ~ EKISTICS is the science of human settlements. Kōnstantinos
Apostolou Doxiadēs (Constantinos) coined the Greek term derived from Greek adjective, οἰκιστικός,
in 1942.
Konstantinos Apostolou Doxiades
Ekistics: An Introduction to the Science of Human Settlements - Konstantinos Apostolou Doxiades (1968) [Book]
Summary of book, EKISTICS - An Introduction to the science of Human Settlements - Constantinos A. Doxiadis
"Drinking water, beaches, a livable climate, clean air, forests, fisheries, and parks are all commons, shared by
many users with diffuse and overlapping interests. These public natural resources are susceptible to depletion, overuse,
erosion, and extinction; and they are under increasing pressures to become privatized. The Public Trust
Doctrine provides a legal basis to guard against privatizing important public resources or commons. As such, it
is a critical doctrine to counter the ever-increasing enclosure and privatization of the commons as well as ensure
government trustees protect current and future generations."
HOSTLE ARCHITECTURE---------------------
"NYC is Building Anti-Homeless Streets" - Cash Jordan (2023)
"NYC is Full of Fake Buildings; Why?" - Cash Jordan (2023)
"The Big Dig Began with Activists who Hated Highways" - GBH News
"Drivers Say Street Safety Redesign has Made it More Dangerous for Them to Use Their Parking Lot" - WLNY TV 10 (2023)
"Transform Lives and Landscapes" - Purpose on the Planet
"Transform Lives and Landscapes" - Purpose on the Planet
"Architects and Planners in the Middle of a Road War: The Urban Design Concept Team in Baltimore, 1966-71" - Journal of Planning
History
"Arthur J. Altmeyer - A Building is Dedicated" - Social Security History
"A Steady Stream of Pee is Eroding Baltimore's Historic Buildings" - The Baltimore Banner (2023)
"America's Oldest Neighborhood is Problematic" - Alan Fisher (November 25th, 2023)
WALK N' ROLL
PRIORITIES:
* 90 percent of Gen Z and Millennials say they would pay more for a walkable community
* Entire population - one-third saying they would pay a lot more
* Majority say that they drive because they do not have other options [Page 6]
* 79 percent of residents like walking
* About half like riding a bike
* 44 percent like taking public transit - a rising trend, especially from Millennials (into their 30-40's) and Generation
Z (Silent Generation)
* Six-in-ten residents say that they drive because they have no other options
* Older residents are less likely to walk because of traffic safety concerns or health issues.
Lots of tables, charts, and graphs.
"The majority of Americans, 53 percent, would prefer to live in communities containing
houses with small yards but within easy walking distance of the community’s amenities, as opposed to living in
communities with houses that have large yards but they have to drive to all amenities. This up from 48 percent in 2015."
Baltimore #103 with 100% Pedestrian Increase "Deadliest Cities for Pedestrians" - Moneygeek (2023)
"It's Time To Rethink How We Measure Cities. We Cannot Afford Not To." - Strong Towns (2023) [Entire]
Water Decision: "It's Time To Rethink How We Measure Cities. We Cannot Afford Not To." - Strong Towns (2023)
Ashville, North Carolina Reparations: "It's Time To Rethink How We Measure Cities. We Cannot Afford Not To" - Strong Towns
(2023)
BALTIMORE
Baltimore streets were designed for people-centric use for horses, carriages, wagons, bicycles, and - streetcars. Baltimore
streets must return to "People/Street-Centric" life; meaning tactile footpaths (visually impaired) and continuous
sidewalks, dedicated-laned streetcars (library and delivery use cars) allee bicycle routes, and redesigned emergency vehicle
prominence, parking and motor vehicle access.
Baltimore must have its own independent public transportation system.
Does not fore fill intended goal. Does absolutely nothing to reduce the amount of cars that drivers continue to drive.
So automobile congestion is worse. Nothing to move drivers to public transportation. Dedicated Lane Streetcars for the
lanes that are now closed are the answer. Most of their rails are underneath the concrete, while others are beaming shiny
new.
[Introduction]: Features Baltimore
"Transformative Placemaking: Expanding Opportunities for People and Places" [Introduction (1) & 2] - Anne-T. and Robert M.
Bass Center for Transformative Placemaking, The Brookings Institution
"Baltimore Students Take Part In Global Climate March" - WJZ TV 13 (2019)
"City Seeks to Create a Climate Change Authority - WBAL TV 11 (June 28, 2023)
"Baltimore City Council Takes Step Toward Combating Climate Change, Requests Report" - WJZ TV 13 (July 2023) [Where is the
report?]
Today: Right of Way Services Division - Baltimore City Department of Transportation
"Mayors Join Coalition to Combat Urban Heat, Other Climate Risks" - (July 2023)
SOCIETAL INSTITUTIONS
Enoch Pratt Free Library - Inventor of the Branch Library System
"The Paradox of Value" Adam Smith - - Akshita Agarwal - TED Education (2016)
"The Paradox at the Heart of Mathematics: Kurt Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem - TED Education - Marcus du Sautoy (2021)
"How Friendship Affects Your Brain" - Shannon Odell - TED Education (2022)
"What are Commons?" - Utrecht University (2018)
"Tragedy Of The Commons" - John Stossel (2014)
"What is a Co-op?" - National Cooperative Business Association (NCBA)
Public Dedication Meaning - Law Insider
"Active-Friendly Transportation" - Center for Disease Control (CDC)
Physical Activity Definitions - Center for Disease Control (CDC)
International Cooperative Alliance
N Street Cohousing - Davis, California
It is the type of trees, which must be native, and part of entire ecosystem canopy restoration.
PARKS
California recommends 3 acres or 1.2 hectares per 1,000 people for planning parks.
Saint Louis Obispo: 10 acres or 4 hectares per 1,000 people= 3 acres of Community Parks, 4 Acres of Neighborhood Parks, and
2 acres of recreation facilities
"Does Your City Have Enough Parks?" - City Beautiful (2023) [Park Quotient Formula]
"Why Rails to Trails are Problematic - Alan Fisher (2023)
"It is our belief that there is much need for actual shopping centers-market places that are also centers of community and
cultural activity. We are convinced that the real shopping center will be the most profitable type of chain store
location yet developed for the simple reason that it will include features to induce people to drive considerable distances
to enjoy its advantages." - Victor Gruen, 1948
Late 1960's and 1970 Founded Victor Gruen Foundation for Environmental Planning and strut a much different walk:
"The ugliness and discomfort of the land-wasting seas of parking, scarred the landscape."
"Nature will die, and man, realizing too late that he is himself part of nature, will suffocate in the stench of the corpse.
To save the environment, Americans have to plan the urban environment. Only by stopping suburban sprawl, and remaking the
city, can an environmental catastrophe be avoided." - Victor Gruen
"It is our belief that there is much need for actual shopping centers-market places that are also centers of community and
cultural activity. We are convinced that the real shopping center will be the most profitable type of chain store
location yet developed for the simple reason that it will include features to induce people to drive considerable distances
to enjoy its advantages." - Victor Gruen, 1948
Late 1960's and 1970 Founded Victor Gruen Foundation for Environmental Planning and strut a much different walk:
"The ugliness and discomfort of the land-wasting seas of parking, scarred the landscape."
"Nature will die, and man, realizing too late that he is himself part of nature, will suffocate in the stench of the corpse.
To save the environment, Americans have to plan the urban environment. Only by stopping suburban sprawl, and remaking the
city, can an environmental catastrophe be avoided." - Victor Gruen
CAR-CENTRIC DISPERSED DEVELOPMENT DESTROYING HEALTH & WEALTH
"'Researchers found increased reports of hypertension, arthritis, headaches, and breathing difficulties, among other chronic
health conditions. Sedentary, car-dominated lifestyles and air pollution appeared to be contributing factors,' Sturm said.
The findings suggest that an adult who lives in a more sprawling urban area will have a health profile similar to someone
four years older who lives in a more compact city."
Victor Gruen warned America, the land where he spent so many of his years, "In the long run, it cannot afford the wastage
of land, of time, and of energy which its system of dispersed development creates."
"The Problem With Shopping Malls" - WB Productions (2022)
Victor Gruen Timeline "A Register of His Papers in the Library of Congress"
"The Gruen Effect" - 99% Invisible
"A City Reborn" - Victor Gruen Associates {1968)
Consumerism and Ecology: "Victor Gruen: the environmental Heart" - TU Delft University of Technology (2017)
"Malls Weren't Supposed to be Like This" - Yet Another Urbanist (2023)
"Car Centric - Car Dependent Sprawl: "'Cars' Suck. Here's Why" - ERYNGO URBANISM (2022)
"Each decade, millions of acres of rural land are converted into urbanized areas with separated residential, shopping
and business areas, limited street connections, and lower population density. Sprawling developments increase our dependence
upon automobiles for transportation, fuel consumption and commuting distances, a trend observed in Europe just as much
as in the USA. While empirical evidence to support the popular assumption that suburban sprawl is bad for one's health remains
limited, plausible pathways exist through which suburban sprawl can affect health. Pathways that have been documented
include increased traffic fatalities, increased air pollution from motor vehicles, decreased walking trips,
and a higher body mass index."
"What Makes POWER CENTERS Bad for Cities: Investigating Heinous Land Uses" [1] - City Nerd (2022)
"What Makes Fast Food Drive-Thrus Bad for Cities: Investigating Heinous Land Uses" [2] - City Nerd (2022)
"What Makes Lifestyle Centers Bad for Cities: Investigating Heinous Land Uses" [3] - City Nerd (2022)
"How Free Parking Destroys Urban Wealth - Yet Another Urbanist (2022)
"How Self Storage Thrives Off The American Dream" - Modern MBA (2023)
"Specifically, urban sprawl is detrimental to the physical health of males and females, but only has negative impact
on the mental health of females. Younger groups are more vulnerable to physical and mental health damage from urban sprawl
relative to middle-aged and older groups. In addition, urban sprawl has a significant negative impact on the health of the
low-education group but a very limited impact on the health of the high-education counterpart. From an income perspective,
however, the preference for suburban housing among middle- and high-income groups makes their health more vulnerable
to the negative effects of urban sprawl than low-income groups living in urban centers."
PARKING: STORAGE FOR VEHICLES
Mel purchases a nursery school next door for the pleasure to destroy it by leveling it for a parking lot.
Tulsa, Oklahoma: "The REAL Downtown Parking Problem..." - EYNGO Urbanism (2022)
"Why Amsterdam is Removing 10,000 Parking Spaces" - Not Just Bikes (2022)
"Parking Garages Represent Lazy and Terrible Planning" - Alan Fisher (2022)
"Enormous Parking Lots of the US: The 10 Most Sprawling Car Parks and Why They Exist" - City Nerd (2022)
"Why American Cities Have So Much Parking" - Cheddar (2021)
"The High Cost of Free Parking" - Vox (2017)
"Should Cities Get Rid of On-Street Parking? - City Beautiful (2022)
"This Croatian Farmer Was Sick Of People Parking On His Land So He Set Up The Perfect Revenge" - Did You Know ? (2020)
The Current Hurdles to Putting More Electric Vehicles on the Road - PBS News Hour (2023)
Car-First Streets - or....
"How To Design A Great Street" - City Beautiful (2020)
Boulevards: "The Street Type that Breaks the Hierarchy" - City Beautiful (2022)
"The Suburban Traffic Contradiction" - Oh The Urbanity(2021)
"Every Neighborhood Should Have a Corner Store - But Can't - City Beautiful (2021)
"How Does Permeable Pavement Work?" - Practical Engineering (2020)
PARKING GARAGES:
* All cars are mostly idle - and parked somewhere. Some government people decided that 1.3 parking spaces with the excess
spaces accounting for "sharing" parking spaces and inefficiencies in "distribution" (the egotistical belief that there is
always supposed to be storage for one's car - for free). This is an astronomical number of parking spaces.
* Drivers looking for parking, circling around and around generate greenhouse gases. Inside a parking facility, a kilometer
driven is much more inefficient than at roadway speeds. and produces much more greenhouse gas than driving a kilometer at
regular, roadway speeds.
* Parking facilities require sizeable amounts of electricity; indoor and outdoor lighting, elevators, and large fans for
ventilation..
* Large, impermeable areas, like conventional parking garages and parking lots contribute to stormwater runoff challenges
by preventing the natural absorption of water into the ground. This increases the deposition of pollutants and sediment into
sensitive creeks, streams, rivers, and bays.
"A vehicle exploded at a parking garage in the Fells Point area on Wednesday, injuring two people, according to authorities."
VERTICAL PARKING:
~ Easy to park
~ Easy to exit
~ Requires less turning radius
~ Least likely to get blocked in
~ More spaces per square per foot than straight parking
~ Lowest risk of collisions with other vehicles
~ Lowest risk of door collisions
~ Makes one-way street parking simple
"Vandal Paints Makeshift {Vertical} Parking Spaces in Downtown Meridian" - KTVB TV 7 Boise
CONGESTION
TWU International President John Samuelsen: There is a Need to Reduce Congestion in New York City" - (August 15th, 2023)
Opinion: "Modified or Not, Toll Lane Plan Will Cement Inequity and Worsen Traffic for Most" - Maryland Matters (2023)
NEIGHBORHOOD WATCH & ASSOCIATIONS
"An Introduction to Neighbourhood Watch" - Arleston Neighbourhood Watch (U.K) (2021)
Television show sarcasm
"Neighborhood Watch Presentation" - Evergreen Neighborhood, San Hose, California (2019)
"Design of Roads and Streets Guide" - Movement and Place NSW Government
"COMMON" THINKING
KIRRIBILLI/MILSONS POINT MAPPED PLAN ~ NORTH SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA 2020
Kirribilli and Milsons Point High Pedestrian Activity Area 40km/h Plan - North Sydney, Australia - YOUR SAY
COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT STRATEGY: Kirribilli and Milsons Point - High Pedestrian Activity Area 40km/h (2020)
"Boston Complete Streets Design Guidelines" | APA Awards 2015 - American Planning Association (2015)
"Why Philadelphia's Streets Are Better Than Other North American Cities" - Alan Fisher (2022)
Carmel Indiana: "The Best Designed Suburb in America" - Shortcut Documentaries (2023)
"Highway Engineering Madness: 10 Waterfront Freeways That Need to Go (North America Edition)" - City Nerd (2022)
Seek, "WALK N' ROLL" [here] for expanded specifics.
AIR RIGHTS
"Cuius est solum, eius est usque ad coelum et ad inferos"
Latin phrase: "Whoever owns the soil, it is theirs up to Heaven and down to Hell."
- Accursius, 13th-century glossator, Medieval Roman law
AIR RIGHTS = Ownership of air - today, and always. Granted, or sold "space" above land/the ground and/or water
extending up infinity above particular ground, building, or park.... that the owner can do as he/she pleases, such as building
unlimited floors, build a steeple, place radio, television, or telephone towers, have a helicopter or other vehicle pad (allowing
anyone - foreign or domestic) to hover over entire property and park on top of. Real Estate term, having value, and so, is
transferable and sellable. Complete domain over, no interference, dominance of who can be above their property. A state,
or country security concern regarding domestic or foreign harm because of intimate access. Can even interrupt and override
police and military search and seizure. Of "National security" nature.
SELL AIR RIGHTS - DON'T GIVE THEM AWAY
"Vertically inclined cities could make a lot of money allowing private developers to build high-rise apartments or business
spaces above libraries, city halls, and schools."
Since 1992: "“Open Skies” air transport agreements, which eliminate government interference in commercial airline
decisions about routes"
"Air Rights" - Wikipedia
"What Are The Freedoms Of The Air?" - Forbes Magazine (2024)
BALTIMORE CITY "Sale of Property - Air Rights over a Portion of the Public Right of Way of the 200 Block of North Broadway"
- City Council President (Administration) [Only 3 council members present to be able to vote]
GIVING AWAY AIR RIGHTS FOR FREE: "The parking lot is currently in the C-5-DE zoning district, which has a height
limit of 125 feet or about 12 stories. The pending legislation, introduced by council member Zeke Cohen, would rezone
the parcel to put it in the C-5-DC zoning district, a category with no height limit."
BUILDING CONSEQUENCES
TOO HEAVY, TOO TOXIC, COLLAPSING, LEANING, AND SINKING SKYSCRAPERS
NATURALLY SINK-DISAPPEARING
It’s a tall order. Every year, 25-35 square miles of land off the coast of Louisiana—an area larger than Manhattan–disappears
into the water. In Southeast Louisiana, relative sea level is rising at a rate of three feet every one hundred years, according
to sixty years of tidal gauge records from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Relative sea level refers
to the change in sea level compared to the elevation of the land, which can be due to a combination of global sea level rise
and subsidence—the settling and sinking of soil over time. Since the 1930s, Louisiana’s coast has lost 1,900 square
miles of land, primarily marshes.
Then, of course, there is the inevitability of tropical storms and hurricanes. Storm surge—the water from the ocean
that is pushed toward the shore by the force of storm winds—takes advantage of the problems caused by subsidence and
global sea level rise. Because much of the Louisiana coast is very low in elevation and gradually converting to open water,
entire neighborhoods, roads, and other structures are vulnerable to even small storm events. ....
'If you live in a really nice place, you don't leave,' Curole says. 'You really treasure the people around you and
the community and the ecosystem. You have to compare the sacrifice of leaving to the sacrifice of staying, and only
when it becomes too hard or too risky to stay, you leave.'
'And that has happened,' he says, calling to mind the sunken crypts hidden in the marshland near Leeville, the remainders
of a community where neighbors also hosted crab boils on their porches once upon time. 'And it could very well happen in the
future. If we lose all of this, it is a part of the world that will never exist again.'"
THE LEANING TOWER OF PISA
"The Leaning Tower of Pisa" - Florence Museum
MEXICO CITY
"Long-term extraction of groundwater has caused significant land subsidence and associated aquifer-system compaction,
which has damaged colonial-era buildings, buckled highways, and disrupted water supply and waste-water
drainage."
RIVERSIDE
"Strong Winds Collapse Historic Building, Halting Traffic in Riverside" - KTLA 5 Los Angeles (November 2023)
SAN FRANCISCO
The Millennium Tower: "The Nightmare of San Francisco's Sinking Tower, Explained - Architecture with Ashley (2023)
SURFSIDE
CHICAGO
"Heat diffusion into the ground creates high underground temperatures, which makes the ground swell, causing buildings
to sink and crack, leading to tremendous upkeep and retrofitting costs."
MONMOUTH COUNTY
"The Jersey Storm: Sandy in Monmouth County" - Monmouth County Clerk's Office
NEW YORK CITY
“We can’t sit around and wait for a critical threshold of sea level rise to occur, because waiting could mean
we would be missing out on taking anticipatory action and preparedness measures,” said Andrew Kruczkiewicz, a senior
researcher at Columbia University’s Climate School.
161 Maiden Lane "Why Nobody Can Fix This New York Skyscraper" [On landfill: Layers of sand and soil] (20140
"The Race to Save New York's Crumbling Infrastructure" -The B1M (December 2023)
"New York's Plan To Defend Itself From Rising Seas" -Cheddar News (2022)
"Sinking Cities: New York" - PBS (2018)
"Flooding Derails Public Transportation" - FOX 5 New York (September 2023)
"NYC is Under Water" - Casey Neistat (September 2023)
"Will New York Be Underwater by 2050?" - Real Engineering (2020)
"Raw: Sandy Leaves NYC Subways Flooded" - Associated Press (October 2012)
"Northern Hurricanes - are catastrophic."
Flood Terms: "The Late Show With David Letterman" [Hurricane Sandy] (2012)
"I saw this with my own eyes. I just realized I had witnessed 6 people die. R.I.P."
"Sandy - Anatomy of a Superstorm" - BBC | New York Sea Grant (2012)
"10 Years Since Superstorm Sandy" - WCAU TV 10 Philadelphia
"Sandy: A CBS News New York Documentary" CBS New York (2022) [10 Years Later]
"127-Year-Old Water Main Under Times Square Floods Streets, Subway System" - CBS New York (2023)
"MTA Prepared to Prevent Flooding at Subway Stations" - CBS New York (2023)
"Tunnel Rehabilitation" - MDOT Policy Manual [No mention of "Flooding" for Baltimore Subway Tunnel
"Flood-Proofing New York's Subways: Future Flooding is a Given for New York City. Can the City Protect its Subway System?"
- Architect Magazine (2016)
"Can We Make Our Subways Flood-Proof Or What?: What Companies are Doing to Prevent Future L Train Shutdowns" - Popular Science
(2016)
"Is it Possible to Flood-Proof the Subways?: Can Subway Tunnels be Made Flood-Proof as Climate Change and Coastal Sea-Level
Rise Promise to Overtake the System?" (2021)
"In the eastern Chinese city of Zhengzhou, subway flooding reached a nightmarish worst-case scenario: hundreds of riders were
trapped in cars as waters rose around them. Fourteen people drowned."
"Yes, The MTA Completely Flooded This Subway Entrance For A Reason" - Gothamist (2019)
"Flexible Buildings: The Future of Architecture Documentary (2021)
Architects are nature-inspired to build sustainable skylines. By 2050, two-thirds of us will be city dwellers.
History of Skyscrapers - Squalid Suburbs (2023)
FEDERAL LEGISLATION (2023-2024)
The Building Collapse Prevention Act
"The Building Collapse Prevention Act would require the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to establish a program
with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to inspect federally assisted rental housing, including public
housing, buildings that accept Section 8 funds, and any other building that accepts federal housing funding. NIST must inspect
a building if HUD, a member of the House of Representatives or Senate requests an inspection of a building or a building collapse.
A member of the House may only request an inspection of a building that is within the Congressional district that they represent,
and a Senator may only request an inspection of a building that is within their state. This request can only be made if there
has been a violation of local construction or building safety codes or an inspection report that finds structural issues with
a building and therefore could lead to a building collapse."
The LIHTC Landlord Accountability Act
"The LIHTC Landlord Accountability Act would require all Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) buildings, both new and existing,
to prove complete architectural safety to receive the affordable housing tax credit. It would mandate that landlords submit
an annual report to the U.S. Department of Treasury detailing their eligibility and structural soundness that must be proved
through a thorough architectural analysis. It would require that the Department of Treasury fine LIHTC landlords $500,000
for noncompliance in these annual reports. Lastly, it would require the Department of Treasury, in consultation with the Department
of Housing and Urban Development, to publish a report on best practices for LIHTC landlords to employ to ensure safety and
integrity in our nation’s largest affordable housing program."
"LOW INCOME HOUSING TAX CREDIT BUILDING INSPECTION REQUIREMENTS."
"INSPECTION OF COVERED FEDERALLY ASSISTED RENTAL HOUSING."
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