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Joe Nickol

Cincinnati, Spokane
As seen in: GOVERNING, Smart Cities Dive
Urbanist and all that entails. Principal @buildwithyard.
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Articles by Joe Nickol

Reclaiming the Sidewalk in City Design

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By Joe Nickol
| Smart Cities Dive Verified
21st Street in Pittsburgh's Strip District makes excellent use of its sidewalk. Getting the little things right The primary type of public space in the United States is the street. It has been the long-standing breadwinner for our economies in providing that rich exchange between customers and merchants, ideas and entrepreneurs, and people and another. Streets are not static or, like our cities themselves, ever complete.
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Bird Cages

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By Joe Nickol
| Strong Towns
Cities across the country are working to figure out dockless mobility services such as e-scooters and bikes as they pop up overnight with seemingly little to no notice. The reaction from policy makers has been varied. It has ranged from quick and overly burdensome regulations and/or impact assessments to outright bans on this new form of transportation. When the Bird scooters landed in Cincinnati earlier this month, we decided to take a different approach.
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The Small-Scale Change That Can Start Bringing a Neighborhood Back

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By Kevin W. Wright, Joe Nickol
| GOVERNING Verified
It's been an exciting decade for urban development. We have witnessed a resurgence of most of our nation's major urban cores, from the east to the west and everywhere in between. Demographics are shifting; people are moving inward. Demand for urban living and urban economies continues to grow. Now the development momentum is beginning to trickle out of downtown neighborhoods and central-city employment centers and into neighborhoods that haven't seen large-scale investments in over half a century.
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How Gentrification Affects a City's Art and Soul

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By Jillian Glover, Joe Nickol
| sustainablecitiescollective.com
A city isn’t really a city without a little grit. That edge, that grittiness I am referring to comes from a city’s built form - it’s industrial land; the train tracks; the port cranes; its older, unkempt graffitied buildings. A city’s grit also comes from it’s people’s struggles - the new immigrant taking a night shift cleaning office buildings to make it in a new world, or the artist eking out a living making art in an abandoned warehouse.
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