146 sign photo from northeastroads.com I was driving on Route 146 to North Providence the other day and got to thinking about this road… Exactly how did it come to exist in its current form?? What is the history...
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Bret Ancowitz
Mass. takes baby step forward on South Coast rail
Fall River City Hall photo by twentysixcats from Flickr PBN reported yesterday about Massachusetts moving forward on environmental review of three proposals for transit options between Boston and Fall River and New...
Jef Nickerson
Urban Gardening
Photo from flickr by snowmentality Today Inhabitat has an article called A Starter Guide to Urban Gardening. One of the things they discuss is the beauty of container gardening, and the variety of things you can grow in...
Matthew Coolidge
Art gets me out the door
Today we launch a new feature at Greater City Providence, Art Scene Lately. Margie Butler joins us as a guest arts contributor sharing updates on what’s out there in the city’s galleries and arts exhibitions...
Margie Butler
Demolition bonds
OneTen Westminster Street | Photo by Jef Nickerson Via Rep. Segal and the Providence Daily Dose: For any urbanists out there - The House Corporations Committee will be hearing legislation today to require that...
Downcity Design Review Committee – April 13, 2009
Notice of Regular Meeting • Monday, April 13, 2009 • 4:45pm Department of Planning and Development, 4th Floor Auditorium 400 Westminster Street, Providence, RI 02903 Opening Session Call to Order Roll Call...
Greater City Providence
24th Annual RI Statewide Historic Preservation Conference
Photo by insEyedout from Flickr The 24th Annual RI Statewide Historic Preservation Conference is taking place Saturday, April 25 on URI’s Kingston Campus. Where better to explore the preservation of outdoor places...
April showers
People keep favoriting this photo in my Flickr photostream. I have no idea why, nothing is happening in the Fenway/Kenmore area today.
Just a cool video
This is nothing to do with anything really, just a video I stumbled upon that I thought was really compelling. This is a from a series that photographer Keith Loutit is working on of Sydney, Australia. The one above is...
Site down, up, down, up…
Photo by youngthousands from Flickr Hi folks! Well, our website is back up, though it’s been through quite a week. Starting on Monday, we noticed our site had been hacked and our homepage replaced. Fortunately, we...
Bike-Sharing in Texas
Bike Share Rack in Barcelona by Matthew Coolidge When I heard on the radio that Austin, Texas was introducing a bike-share program I got all excited and immediately thought of Barcelona, where people actively use a...
Federal transportation system revealed to be giant Madoffian Ponzi Scheme
Photo by MumbleyJoe on Flickr Today, in a rather tongue in cheek, April-Fools-y-ish, but actually rather spot on post, Project for Public Spaces reveals that the US Transportation System is a giant Ponzi Scheme. My...
State Laws and Biking
Photo by thatsparklychick from flickr The Providence Bicycle Coalition (PBC) has been hard at work trying to update the state laws when it comes to bicycle safety. According to their blog, For the most part, the changes...
Woe is The Dunk
Yesterday’s Journal reported on the financial constraints at the Dunkin Donuts Center. While the shiny new Dunk opened to much fanfare and promises of increased income for the state (the Dunk’s owner) and...
“Forgotten Providence”
Photo by Stump Blankenship from Forgotten Providence This strange, sad, oddly compelling photo comes from Forgotten Providence a new-ish (?) blog documenting foreclosed properties in the city. I really don’t have...
Better Renderings of proposed New Pawtucket River Bridge
Earlier in the month I posted about the release of designs for the proposed New Pawtucket River Bridge on Route 95. At the time I was only able to track down the teeny tiny little image posted with the PBN article on it...
