Category: Urban Planning
City Council Meetings on the Buncher/Strip Development
| September 20, 2012 | Posted by Seenster under Community Development, Sustainable Development, Urban Planning |
If you are interested in learning more about what is happening with the proposed development in the Strip District – this is the project where the Buncher Company would be tearing down part of the Terminal Buildings – then you might want to check out these two meetings. Monday, September 25, 2012 1pm City Council…
Community Meeting – July 7 at 6:30 p.m. re: Beechwood Blvd and Boulevard Dr. Site in Greenfield
| June 30, 2011 | Posted by Progress Pittsburgh under Events, Urban Planning |
Councilman Doug Shields will convene a community meeting on Thursday, July 7, 2011 from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at the Greenfield Senior Center (located at 745 Greenfield Ave.) regarding development at the church on Beechwood Blvd. and Boulevard Dr. in Greenfield. This meeting is open to the public and will focus on possibilities for this…
What are we tolerating and putting up with?
| August 2, 2009 | Posted by engagedcitizen under Allegheny-County, Civic Engagement, Community Development, Jobs, Labor, Location, Mon Valley, Neighborhoods, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, Sustainable Development, Urban Planning, voting |
Last week as we left Loew’s and a sneak preview of Funny People, once again we found ourselves appreciating just how awful the design of the Waterfront is. It’s as if the bad mall martians flew in from outer space, landing on one of the most key-critical, history rich and defining sites of Pittsburgh’s past,…
North Shore vs. North Side — Rally July 23
| July 21, 2009 | Posted by committeegrrl under Health Insurance, Jobs, Labor, Sustainable Development, Urban Planning |
Image via Wikipedia Pittsburgh Lesbian Correspondent has the press release from last weeked protest and the PGH Comet has a posts about the protestors that were arrested last week. The protests took place outside the Delmonte headquarters The Delmonte HQ is managed by Continental Real Estate Continental pays their building service workers poverty wages with no…
Mayor’s Press Release – Plans for Market Square
| February 17, 2009 | Posted by River Rat under Urban Planning |
From Mayor Luke Ravenstahl’s Office this morning PRESS RELEASE MAYOR UNVEILS PLANS FOR MARKET SQUARE, HIGHLIGHTS PITTSBURGH’S GROWTH Annual Meeting Showcases Record Development Numbers as New Projects Speak to Pittsburgh’s Resilience PITTSBURGH, PA —Pittsburgh’s historic Market Square during the Pittsburgh Downtown Partnership’s (PDP) Annual Meeting held this morning at the DoubleTree Hotel Pittsburgh City Center. More than $4 billion in investment is currently planned or already underway…
Who is benefits from leasing or selling the parking garages?
| January 27, 2009 | Posted by insider under Community Development, Pittsburgh, Sustainable Development, Transportation, Urban Planning |
Image by UtopianLibrary via Flickr Mayor Luke Ravenstahl‘s idea to lease the city’s parking garages (more here) has generated quite a bit of buzz in Pittsburgh and beyond. The article from the PG was also picked up by Harvard’s Kennedy School here and on the blogs Milwaukee Talkie and Planetizen. This idea has also been…
What is the purpose of public transit?
| September 24, 2008 | Posted by TransitGeek1 under Government, Issues, Jobs, Pittsburgh, Politics, Poverty, Sustainable Development, Transportation, Urban Planning, Western PA |
Again, there’s a really interesting conversation about transit going on over at Nullspace: http://nullspace2.blogspot.com/2008/09/transit-tuesday-metrics-to-be-proud-of.html Chris B. deconstructs some of the “facts” touted in a recent Forbes.com report and P-G article about Pittsburgh being in the top 5 commuter-friendly regions. He points out that the figures that put us in the top 5 are ridership numbers…
Blogging PatFordgate
| September 12, 2008 | Posted by committeegrrl under Blogs, Gossip, Government, Urban Planning |
Image via Wikipedia Chris Briem wonders if the Pat Ford settlement will mean the end of the Burghosphere – “I mean, will there be enough fodder for people to write about going forward. It’s debatable.” But Doug Sheilds has already called for an investigation and thus the saga of what can only be labeled Pat-Fordgate…
Allegheny Conference— Spreading Misinformation about Transit???
| September 11, 2008 | Posted by TransitGeek1 under Community Development, Government, Issues, Jobs, Labor, Transportation, Uncategorized, Urban Planning, Western PA |
In the Post-Gazette today, attorney Joseph Pass responds directly to Ken Zapinski of the Allegheny Conference on Community Development’s management-slanted editorial from labor day weekend. Don’t punish transit workers Perhaps local corporations should make ‘concessions’ I read with interest the rantings of Ken Zapinski of the Allegheny Conference on Community Development titled, “A Time for…
The Writing’s on the Billboard
| August 7, 2008 | Posted by engagedcitizen under Civic Engagement, Government, Pittsburgh, Urban Planning |
The State Ethics Board has decided not to investigate Pat Ford (article) and the controversial billboard on the Grant Street transportation center is going up. Is this good news? These developments beg the question: what was all that fuss about? If we were going to end up right back where we started, what was the…
Tool includes transportation costs in defining housing affordability
| July 27, 2008 | Posted by april under Community Development, Environment, Events, Sustainable Development, Transportation, Urban Planning |
A timely topic, as energy becomes a sharper issue for the American public and we watch changes in consumer behavior hash out against a backdrop of slow-to-change and often contradictory public policy. Will there be any long-term impact on where people choose to live? Well, this index is a project of The Urban Markets Initiative…
More Buildings to Come Down in Uptown
| June 23, 2008 | Posted by breen under Civic Engagement, Community Development, Environment, Issues, Pittsburgh, Sustainable Development, Urban Planning |
Many a Pittsburgh resident has seen the sad shape of Pittsburgh’s Uptown (a.k.a. Soho) neighborhood today. It’s sprinkling of old buildings awash in a sea of parking lots. And all of those parking lots are owned by one man, Sal Williams. Many a community advocate has been puzzled and stymied by this accumulation of parking…
Pittsburgh is (sort of) “green.”
| June 9, 2008 | Posted by breen under Environment, Pittsburgh, Sustainable Development, Urban Planning |
Pittsburgh is featured in a recent series on grist.com. I think that this article provides a very fair assessment of Pittsburgh’s “greenness”: The Smoky City has become a poster child of sorts for urban revitalization, although it still hasn’t achieved the eco-notoriety of larger metropolitan areas. As home to the nonprofit Green Building Alliance, Pennsylvania’s…
Local Leadership
| April 17, 2008 | Posted by engagedcitizen under Civic Engagement, Community Development, Environment, Government, Pittsburgh, Public Safety, Sustainable Development, Urban Planning |
Yesterday afternoon, over 100 neighborhood representatives met in Highland Park for the Mayor’s Neighborhood Summit. Participants were invited there to, “begin the process of informing and shaping the City ‘s community revitalization policy.” Presentations were made by foundation and URA representatives. However, the discussion was not sufficient to inform and shape policy. In this humble…
presidential candidates take on placemaking
| April 1, 2008 | Posted by breen under Community Development, Sustainable Development, Urban Planning |
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