"Cities are working desperately and without enough resources on a wide variety of land use needs around transit." This bill would provide them a much needed tool for acquiring land + building value around those investments. -Peter Orser #soundCommunities #AHW2020 Housing Consortium

Now Rick Mohler of UW Built Environments is discussing a study that #SoundCommunities is conducting to measure the potential value add that this housing benefits district might provide. The study is looking at three station areas in Tacoma, Everett, and Renton. #AHW2020 Housing Consortium

"We need to think about housing, like we think about infrastructure that involves big, bold moves." --@jessynfarrell1 #ahw2020 Housing Consortium

"All these investments in transit we are making as a region are _worthless_ if we don't have people to ride the transit. That's what this is about." --Peter Orser in re #soundCommunities at the Housing Consortium #ahw2020

For everyone who is watching the Housing Consortium #ahw2020 Affordable Housing Week panel discussion with #SoundCommunities, you can learn more about the project here: soundcommunitiesps.org

The Chesapeake Mapping Initiative will include places important to African Americans in the Chesapeake Bay Region, and ultimately mean that more of them are conserved through land protection and historic preservation. #mondaysAreForMaps forum.savingplaces.org/blogs/kendra-p…

This week, join Knight for the second Knight Public Spaces Forum. During the two-day event, we'll hear from leading #publicspaces thinkers as they discuss building safe, equitable spaces for communities. Space is limited. Learn more: kf.org/publicspaces20 #publicspaces20

These are stunningly beautiful—and heartbreaking—photos of Calumet, Michigan. Calumet, also known as “Copper Town” has an estimated 2019 population of 687, but had a peak in 1900 of 4,668.

So many good speakers, topics, and sessions at tomorrow's Knight Foundation Public Spaces Forum. We'll be there clapping (on mute) for the Public Spaces Fellows and other friends and colleagues. Congrats to Lynn Ross and everyone at team Knight. knightfoundation.org/knight-public-…

Today's #mondaysAreForMaps is from the Thai artist Rirkrit Tiravanija. This 84-foot long scroll uses screen-print, offset lithography, and inkjet print reproductions of the artist’s passport over 20 years from 1988 to 2008. artnet.com/galleries/caro…

Check out the new MTA digital subway map! It is the first to use the agency’s data streams to update in real time. #mondaysAreForMaps curbed.com/2020/10/first-…

Here's a helpful tool to understand the different projections of the earth's surface onto a two-dimensional map: #mondaysAreForMaps mathigon.org/course/circles…

New study on spatial mapping of social exposures to COVID-19 shows that residents in the urban core are exposed to both morbidity and mortality much more quickly than those on the periphery. #mondaysAreForMaps pnas.org/content/117/39…

"This map of Detroit was made to hang on a wall!" #mondaysAreForMaps detroitography.com/2020/10/05/map…

In Detroit, some reported cases of graffiti tickets included sanctioned murals and street art. Those tickets led the Mayor to apologize and dismiss all graffiti tickets for murals and signs. #mondaysAreForMaps detroitography.com/2016/09/23/map…

Paid summer 2021 internship documenting the statue and landscape at Simon Bolivar Park in downtown Washington, DC through the National Park Service's Latino Heritage Internship Program. latinoheritageintern.org/job/architectu…

This is a great personalized mapping project of a city, based on the work on Sol LeWitt's 1980 work "The Area of Manhattan Between the Places I Have Lived Is Removed." #mondaysAreForMaps x.com/BillLindeke/st…

"London may strive to constantly reinvent itself, to pile its surface ever higher with steel and concrete each year, but the city has never really lost that era’s stamp." #mondaysAreForMaps Charles Booth’s famous maps of Victorian London via Bloomberg CityLab bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Devastating and beautiful project by Ada Tolla to document the controversial pipeline being built to carry extracted gas under eastern + northern Brooklyn --despite NYC’s ambitious climate agenda and a statewide ban on fracking. #mondaysAreForMaps urbanomnibus.net/2020/12/end-of…