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ICYMI: 'Urbanism memo to President Biden: Think housing, transit ... and don’t forget the designers'


2021-01-28

2020 ASLA Professional Award of Excellence in Urban Design. Dilworth Park, OLIN | Photo by James Ewing\OTTO

Dilworth Park
 From the LA Times:

"...It will be critical to support rail and other mass transit options. Just as critical will be advocating for ways those options can intersect with the cheapest and easiest ways of getting around a city — namely, walking and biking. To achieve this, a group of transit organizations, along with the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA), recommends that the DOT launch a new division: an Active Transportation Administration that would, in the words of ASLA’s policy recommendations, “provide vision, focus, and priority for active transportation programs...”

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