Shared Air

One of the things that seems to describe Richmond is Movement – horizontal and vertical. Frank Sprague’s trolley moved us from place to place, and his elevator moved us up and down. But we’re talking metaphors here, also. Vertical movement describes social growth and change, and we have buckets of that too. (Visit the Facebook [...]

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“Paying the meter of a parking space enables one to lease precious urban real estate on a short-term basis. What is the range of possible activities for this short-term lease?”

PARK(ing) Day is Friday September 18, 2009.
Born out of Rebar’s creative exploration for how urban public space is allocated and used, PARK(ing) Day has become an [...]

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Of all the Conversations on City Centers and Economics, Transit Stops and Transfer Hubs, Flood Zones and Flex-space, Vacant “Big Box” and Heat Island Conversions, Need to Feed the Street, Labor Lags and Layoffs, or Connecting Communities to Schools and Education to Learning…this “beets” them all, green thumbs down!

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Ryan Avent @ Atlantic Magazine points out an economic reality I think regional leaders are ill-equipped to see or seemingly lack the courage to respond to. And that’s either a shame, or poetic justice, because while only playing a land use game for 30 years (all the while resisting the idea of regionalism and its [...]

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Every morning I wake up to cars driving by on the highway less than a quarter mile away from my room. Recently, the Richmond Times Dispatch (our local White newspaper) published a news article (link below) about a repair project on Hwy 64. The article said “The $43.3 million I-64 project will repair and resurface [...]

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We mentioned Portland’s $150 million transportation stimulus bonanza here last week. Well, here’s PBS’ documentary explaining what the Oregon city of similar size and geography to Richmond has been doing to earn it, and how they’ve had to tackle the transport, land use and energy economics and mindsets that worked in 1957 but no longer [...]

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His latest column, “Build it, and they will come?” is one-half exasperation and one-half folding to what he percives to be a better hand…
It’s time to end this long, drawn-out debate over the best site for a new baseball stadium in Richmond.The Shockoe Bottom location represents the only real momentum we have toward a ballpark. [...]

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Fitzgerald: The rich are different than you and me.
Hemingway: Yes, they have more money.
It seemed sadly appropriate that I thought of that quotation about rich people and then mangled it for this post’s headline about the below article. Sad and appropriate because the original, a dialogue claimed by Ernest Hemingway between him and F. [...]

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Friday 15 May 2009 is National Bike to Work Day.  Join the Convoy!
Arrive in Monroe Park by 7:15 a.m. for a presentation by Governor Tim Kaine and a representative from the City of Richmond. At 7:30 a.m., Governor Kaine will lead the group down Franklin Street towards the Capitol and riders can head to [...]

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“Every $1 invested in public transit generates about $6 in local economic activity.”
The lack of public transit is not so profitable.

LMR 2009 project team produced this new viral marketing campaign to promote public transportation and support for transit funding.  The program highlights transit-related issues and challenges effecting our region including, but not limited to, affordable [...]

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