Urban Planning - Washingtonian https://www.washingtonian.com The website that Washington lives by. Wed, 13 Mar 2024 15:56:36 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 https://www.washingtonian.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/cropped-washingtonian-favicon-gigantic-138x138.png Urban Planning - Washingtonian https://www.washingtonian.com 32 32 This Man Walked From Washington State to Washington, DC https://www.washingtonian.com/2024/03/11/this-man-walked-from-washington-state-to-washington-dc/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=this-man-walked-from-washington-state-to-washington-dc https://www.washingtonian.com/2024/03/11/this-man-walked-from-washington-state-to-washington-dc/#respond Mon, 11 Mar 2024 16:43:30 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/?p=1678527 Holden Ringer is sitting on the lower steps of the Lincoln Memorial, staring across a drained Reflecting Pool, when I find him and “Smiley,” a bright red running stroller with two big googly eyes and a painted-on smile.  “It’s funny,” he says. “For some reason, the whole time I was walking here, I kept imagining […]

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8 Things to Know About Union Station’s Proposed Redesign https://www.washingtonian.com/2023/05/15/8-things-to-know-about-union-stations-proposed-redesign/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=8-things-to-know-about-union-stations-proposed-redesign Mon, 15 May 2023 19:29:21 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/?p=1637615 The Federal Railroad Administration, which is the main federal agency responsible for Union Station, released 300 pages of revised plans for the station’s multibillion-dollar renovation. The renovation, first proposed in 2012, would be the first major improvement project at the 115-year-old station—which serves 37 million riders each year—in more than 30 years. The project comes with […]

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A New Book Digs Into Greenbelt’s Radical Past https://www.washingtonian.com/2019/04/05/new-book-radical-suburbs-digs-into-greenbelts-radical-past-amanda-kolson-hurley/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=new-book-radical-suburbs-digs-into-greenbelts-radical-past-amanda-kolson-hurley Fri, 05 Apr 2019 11:00:53 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/?p=678050 When journalist Amanda Kolson Hurley was growing up in Alexandria, she went on day trips with her political-science-professor dad. He was interested in urban history, and they liked to explore “places that functioned as suburbs,” she recalls, “but were really different because of the values behind them.” Years later, those experiences helped guide Hurley toward […]

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The DC Area Is Improving Its Walkability Faster Than Boston, Seattle, or New York https://www.washingtonian.com/2017/07/05/dc-area-improving-walkability-faster-boston-seattle-new-york/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=dc-area-improving-walkability-faster-boston-seattle-new-york Wed, 05 Jul 2017 13:57:48 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/?p=230528 Christopher Leinberger is a professor of real-estate and urban analysis at George Washington University and also a developer. But he isn’t “a real academic,” he says, and he finds the life of a developer boring. At heart, he’s a New Urbanist—a believer in “smart growth” as the cure for America’s sprawl. As he lays out […]

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Pokemon Go Locations Are Another Symptom of DC’s Demographic Divide https://www.washingtonian.com/2016/08/02/pokemon-go-locations-are-another-symptom-of-dcs-demographic-divide/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=pokemon-go-locations-are-another-symptom-of-dcs-demographic-divide Tue, 02 Aug 2016 20:02:36 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/?p=199707 A map of the District showing the spots that draw in Pokemon Go players doesn’t just tell where all the Pikachus and Charizards are hiding. It also underscores the demographic divisions across city neighborhoods, according to researchers at the Urban Institute. Pokestops, the locations where players capture the cartoon monsters, and “gyms” where the creatures are trained up, tend to be […]

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