21st Century Urban Solutions was an urban planning blog by Daniel Jacobson during parts of his freshman and sophomore years of college at Stanford University in 2009 and 2010. The blog reflects some early thoughts and ideas as an urban planning student. For a more recent overview of Daniel’s work, visit www.danielaaronjacobson.com.
Transportation Planning and Urban Design
Daniel, I saw the comment you posted on 26 June on the Transbay Blog regarding Jerry Brown and Pleasanton. I edit a monthly newsletter, Northern News, for northern CA city planners (http://www.norcalapa.org/pages/chapter/chapter_newsletter.htm; newsletter info is on page 3). It’s a volunteer operation; I’m always looking for articles of interest to planners in our area. Would you consider writing something for us (1200-2400 words max)? The July-Aug issue is full and will publish around July 15th. The Sept. issue will publish around August 25 (deadline August 15). Let me know,
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Naphtali H. Knox, FAICP
General Plans
1025 Forest Avenue
Palo Alto CA 94301
415-699-7333
Editor, Northern News
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Daniel,
Just discovered your blog, already added it to my reader. Looking forward to more … keep up the great work.
You’re amazing for a student !!
Keep up the critical analysis and “Designer’s Mind, Designer’s Eye”, as I call it.
Daniel,
I’m an intern at a small Chicago nonprofit called IssueLab, which is an online archive of research produced by nonprofits. We’re doing a CloseUp on environmental justice and environmental racism in the next couple of months and I was happy to find your entries on Bayview-Hunters Point while tooling around the internet for research. I just wanted to alert you to the existence of IssueLab (www.issuelab.org), which serves a centralized database on a number of social issues that might be of interest to you or that could add some depth to the areas you study. Nonprofits provide a unique perspective on these issues that too often goes unseen.
Thanks!
Sydney
Hello Daniel this is Lee,
I am pleased to find your blog and I look forward to studying your articles and views.
I write a blog titled “Put Carts on the Public Bus”. I explore various aspects of putting carts on the public bus as a strategy for making it possible for some suburban residents and businesses to function without always maintaining a personal car.
I have observed that even with the best transportation engineering efforts, public buses operate with a low load factor. During off-peak hours, most public buses operate with less than 20% of the carrying capacity used. Why not use that expensive, paid for high quality transportation service to carry stuff when the passengers are not using the service?