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• The road to immobility for older Miamians

  
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  Written by Peter Smith Two summers ago, I attended a presentation on mobility at the Department of Transportation’s new headquarters in Navy Yard. My then-boss, Mariia Zimmerman, was speaking on our nation’s preparedness to deal with an aging population in an auto-centric culture, and she gave a startling ...
  2 days ago

• Weekly Review of Transit, Place and Culture in Anime 41

  
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  Welcome to this week’s review of notable instances of transit, place and culture as rendered in anime currently broadcast in Japan and simulcast internationally via the web. For a detailed outline of the approach, please refer to the explanation in the inaugural issue . Links to streaming sources are included when ...
  1 week ago

• News & Notes

  
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  → Streetsblog: The Epidemic of Pedestrian Deaths in America, and Why It Barely Registers In 2010, 4,280 pedestrians were killed in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control, and another 70,000 were injured. That’s one death every two hours. It’s impossible to quantify the human toll ...
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• Duncan Sidewalk Fixed, Crosswalk at Newstead Still A Problem

  
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  Today when I visit Solae it won’t be a challenge like it has been, last month I discovered a problem that existed since the building opened in 2008 has finally been fixed. Last July I posted about the problem and contacted Solae, Cortex and Washington University. Here’s what it used to look like, the gap was ...
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• How We’ve Ignored the Complex Simplicity of the Manhattan Street Grid

  
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  What has been lost in the ignorance and rejection of the core principles of the Manhattan grid, to the detriment of most cities in the western world, is the ability to establish the physical pattern that new growth and development will take in order to integrate itself into a connected urban whole.
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• Gold mostly unavailable, so well pave the streets with EDIT.

  
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  Its a city council Monday, and millions will be spent on paving. The question now is this: When do we begin calming these newly paved streets and returning the New Albany street grid to two-way traffic? It would be a fine step toward walkability ... Why walkability?  ... Jeff Speck’s “Walkable City” ...
  2 weeks ago

• Weekly Review of Transit, Place and Culture in Anime 40

  
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  Welcome to this week’s review of notable instances of transit, place and culture as rendered in anime currently broadcast in Japan and simulcast internationally via the web. For a detailed outline of the approach, please refer to the explanation in the inaugural issue . Links to streaming sources are included when ...
  2 weeks ago

• Omni Majestic Hotel Protects Pedestrian Route

  
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  In February I posted about a problem I had observed, see Bollards Needed to Protect Pedestrian Route Into Omni Majestic Hotel on Pine Street . I contacted the manager of the hotel about the problem, along with a link to my post.  One of the five pics I used to illustrate the problem of vehicles parking on the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Thinking Outside the Pedestrian-Box

  
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  A pedestrian bridge above US-1 at the University MetroRail station was recently approved by Miami-Dade County and is currently moving closer to an agreement . Though a state and federally funded project of $6 million , the University Centre mall owner has raised some concerns and is refusing to allow the county ...
  3 weeks ago

• Weekly Review of Transit, Place and Culture in Anime 39

  
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  Welcome to this week’s review of notable instances of transit, place and culture as rendered in anime currently broadcast in Japan and simulcast internationally via the web. For a detailed outline of the approach, please refer to the explanation in the inaugural issue . Links to streaming sources are included when ...
  3 weeks ago

• Does Miami Want to Become a World Class City or a Gated City?

  
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  We often hear that Miami is becoming a world-class city, but the sad truth is that Magic City is quickly becoming the country’s first gated city. What’s even worse is our elected officials are championing and using public funds to build walls and fences along the public right-of way, reducing mobility options ...
  4 weeks ago

• Former River Roads Mall Site Vacant, the Few New Buildings Aren’t Pedestrian Friendly

  
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  River Roads Mall was located in the north St. Louis County municipality of Jennings, MO: Opened in 1962, the mall originally featured St. Louis-based Stix, Baer & Fuller as its main anchor store, as well as a Kroger supermarket and a Woolworth dime store. Walgreens operated a store in the mall as well. A 1970s ...
  4 weeks ago

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