Small efforts, rather than grand gestures, can help a community improve the city in tiny increments.
"...The wedges of pavement squeezed along a highway on-ramp, the slips of unkempt grass, uncovered and then forgotten when one building replaced another, have become a rallying point...
[Everyday urbanism] is a non-utopian, non-idealistic, bottom-up approach to city-building that emphasizes small efforts over grand gestures. It lets people in a community give shape to its design. And it seeks to make cities, and the lives lived within them, better in tiny increments, neighbourhood by neighbourhood, rather than through attempts at cure-alls.
...It's a space left, literally, in between, uncared for and unclaimed. It is also the kind of site that, with a little creative ingenuity and political will, could quickly relinquish its position among the endless examples of small-scale blight, and instead offer hope.
Tiny gestures, everyday urbanism says, make a difference."
FULL STORY: The plight of the orphan space
Florida Considers Legalizing ADUs
Current state law allows — but doesn’t require — cities to permit accessory dwelling units in single-family residential neighborhoods.
Manufactured Crisis: Losing the Nation’s Largest Source of Unsubsidized Affordable Housing
Manufactured housing communities have long been an affordable housing option for millions of people living in the U.S., but that affordability is disappearing rapidly. How did we get here?
HUD Announces Plan to Build Housing on Public Lands
The agency will identify federally owned parcels appropriate for housing development and streamline the regulatory process to lease or transfer land to housing authorities and nonprofit developers.
EPA Terminates $116 Million in Grants for Reducing Emissions from Construction Materials
C-MORE grants were earmarked for industry trade groups and universities.
BART Closes $35 Million Deficit
Cost control and revenue generation measures prevented service cuts.
The New Parisian Hearse is a Bicycle
Sleek, silent, and sustainable, a green trip to the graveyard has hit the streets of the French capital.
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