"A community’s physical form, rather than its land uses, is its most intrinsic and enduring characteristic." [Katz, EPA] This blog focuses on place and placemaking and all that makes it work--historic preservation, urban design, transportation, asset-based community development, arts & cultural development, commercial district revitalization, tourism & destination development, and quality of life advocacy--along with doses of civic engagement and good governance watchdogging.
It's not particularly pathbreaking. Libraries in places like Orange County, California and Calgary have put in book lending stations at transit stations in their communities for more than a decade.
2. But once again, it raises the issue of how to make bus stops more than perfunctory places within a neighborhood and community. See past blog entries: