by meg | Jan 25, 2017 | Infrastructure, Multi-Modal Culture, Transportation
This past weekend I had the pleasure of visiting Pullman, Washington, to check out the WSU campus with one of my daughters. A trip like that is an opportunity to compare our college town to another, but it’s also a chance to get some reading done while flying...
by meg | Jan 19, 2017 | Bikes & Peds, Built Environment, Planning & Design, Transportation
Olive Street, between College and Mason, used to be a residential block. The Armstrong hotel first opened in 1923, but there were still mansions between downtown and the hotel along College Avenue and there were still houses on Olive and Mason on that block. By the...
by meg | Jan 9, 2017 | Built Environment, City Budget/Spending, Economic Sustainability, Growth & Density
Since the 1960s, historic preservationists have been arguing that older, denser buildings should be conserved and reused and that tearing down these buildings to create parking lots was doing damage to the fabric of the city. They also argued that the big box stores...
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