City Planner, AICP, CNU-A • Car-free • Bike commuter • Kansas City native • @AndrewsUniv grad • Wifey to @kennethjgarcia • 100% ecuatoriana de corazón
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Jennifer Garcia retweeted
2 Feb 2024
Andres Duany: In the New Urbanism, variances are granted for merit, NOT for hardship. Wanna break the rules? Bring a great idea.
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3 Feb 2024
“There are 2 parts of community revitalization:
1) change the mentality, and
2) change the built environment.
You need both to succeed”
~ Allan Branch @SeasideInst
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Jennifer Garcia retweeted
22 Sep 2023
For nearly 20 years, Ellsworth Drive in Silver Spring, Maryland has been closed to cars. In that time, it's become a vibrant communal space.
What's stopping your downtown from creating a street like this?
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11 May 2023
It’s impossible to critique an architect who already started off on the wrong foot. ~ Ralph Portuondo
#MediterraneanArchitecture #CoralGables #TraditionalArchitecture
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11 May 2023
Learn the language of the architectural style to manipulate it successfully, rather than copy the architecture. ~ Peter Kiliddjian
#MediterraneanArchitecture #CoralGables #TraditionalArchitecture
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11 May 2023
If the massing or volume for a building isn’t correct, it doesn’t matter how many elements you add, the building isn’t correct. ~ Glenn Pratt
#MediterraneanArchitecture #CoralGables #TraditionalArchitecture
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Jennifer Garcia retweeted
9 Apr 2023
Pictured are two things that most zoning codes have rendered illegal:
Missing middle housing.
Alleys.
Both are key to building livable, economically resilient communities.
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13 Apr 2023
Modernism has obliterated every tradition architectural style in the world ~ Stefanos Polyzoides @moulepolyzoides
#MediterraneanArchitectureSeries
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13 Apr 2023
When a building passes a certain scale, the building should no longer be designed as a vernacular building, but classical. ~ Stefanos Polyzoides @moulepolyzoides
#MediteraneanArchitectureSeries
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20 Jun 2022
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20 Jun 2022
What one can do with small buildings close together and no on-site parking.
#MarthasVineyard #OakBluffs #SmallIsBeautiful
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25 Mar 2022
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25 Mar 2022
Today, Joseph Kohl was made a Fellow of Congress for the @NewUrbanism! On the porch at the first CNU, Joe's championed livable cities, co-founded @FormBasedCodes Institute, taught 2 generations of urbanists, & tirelessly defended neighborhoods. #CNU #CNU30 @DoverKohl
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Jennifer Garcia retweeted
5 Dec 2021
To explain zoning to my family, for holiday dinner I’m gonna ask to put salads on one table, drinks on another, sides on a third table and the main dish in the living room.
Then watch the traffic chaos as everyone tries to eat.
That’s how suburbs create traffic out of thin air
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Jennifer Garcia retweeted
16 Jul 2021
Free parking at work clogs streets, boosts emissions, and isn’t fair to commuters who can’t use this popular perk. But there’s a very easy way to fix it bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via @citylab
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Jennifer Garcia retweeted
28 Apr 2021
English Village, Richmond Virginia, Bascom Joseph Rowlett, 1927
17 two bedroom units tucked into the Museum District neighborhood.
#gentledensity #missingmiddle
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26 Feb 2021
One of these is not like the others.
#CoralGables #IlluminateCoralGables #Illuminate2021 #CoralGablesArt #BikeArt
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Jennifer Garcia retweeted
14 Feb 2021
Amsterdam’s plan to remove 11,200 parking spaces from its streets by the end of 2025 is even more inspiring when we realize the kind of people places that are possible where cars used to be. Example — #Amsterdam’s Elandsgracht between 2014 & 2019, via @schlijper’s great pics.
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14 Feb 2021
Fun #ArtInPublicPlaces that accentuates #CoralGables’ beautiful architecture during #IlluminateCoralGables
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Jennifer Garcia retweeted
12 Feb 2021
Never forget, the safest things for people on bikes are safe bike infrastructure and a lot MORE people on bikes. Things that reduce biking make biking less safe. Via @OECD, the more people ride bikes in a country, the fewer fatal bike incidents there are.
read.oecd-ilibrary.org/trans…
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