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Welcome to For the City Girls, a newsletter exploring the intersections of urban planning, city life, and design. From musings to big ideas, it’s for anyone who loves cities, questions how they work, and dreams of making them better.
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the empty lot next door could change your whole neighborhood (opens the original)
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The Planning Alphabet is a 26-part series, where I will pick an urban planning term that starts with a certain letter, delve into the word, share some context, and leave you with any current happenings related to that word. Have ideas for the next letter? Leave a comment!Let’s say you’re on a walk and you come across a place like this, what immediately comes to mind?<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!fN0I!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:
M̶i̶d̶w̶e̶s̶t̶ Rust Belt Princess (opens the original)
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So by the strangest turn of events, my scheduled flight from Newark, NJ, to Detroit landed me in Cleveland. No, there wasn’t some weird rerouting situation; my flight got cancelled, and instead of accepting defeat (literally could not even get a hotel voucher!), we talked our way onto a ~1 a.m. flight to Cleveland. Was that a sound choice? Eh, but you’d… Read more
ngl transit doesn't have to be sexy (opens the original)
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I saw an Instagram post the other day where the creator listed off 5 cities that need “real transit”. Mind you, the cities had transit… they just didn’t have trains. To this person, trains = real transit, or in this case, “sexy transit”. And I do think, this is where many of us go wrong. We put all of our eggs in the train basket and don’t pay much atte… Read more
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