Share If you want to feel how desperately dependent on the automobile you are, simply arrange for your only vehicle to break down. This happened to me and my family recently, and suddenly, getting a daughter to a distant doctor, getting a dog to the vet, and getting groceries became either difficult or impossible. At [...]
A maddening map of the precincts
by Jon Swerens on November 6, 2007, in Elections, Neighborhoods
Share Has anyone ever successfully used the Allen County GIS system to determine his own precinct or polling place? I appreciate the effort that went into gathering all the information and pulling it into one system. But the county system is a classic example of enterprise software being written for programmers rather than for end [...]
Can it be this simple?
by Jon Swerens on October 25, 2007, in Transportation, Urbanism
Share “If you plan cities for cars and traffic, you get cars and traffic. If you plan for people and places, you get people and places.” More from the Project for Public Spaces’s transportation program: “The power of this simple idea is that it reflects basic truths that are rarely acknowledged. One such truth is [...]

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