Daniel JeansonApr 29, 20212 minGirl Gone Planning: 89 PeopleThe US Census reporte preliminary numbers for their 2020 count on Monday and it reported that New York would be losing a House seat (and...
Daniel JeansonApr 23, 20213 minGirl Gone Planning: Pandemic Winners: Places Like Albany?Albany, NY is a city of 98,000 (pending 2020 Census numbers) sitting along the Hudson River 130 miles north of New York City. It is the...
Daniel JeansonFeb 18, 20214 minTexas Should Be A Warning For Us AllThe devastation that is unfolding in Texas is heartbreaking to watch and infuriating to know that it could have been avoided. This post...
Daniel JeansonAug 27, 20202 minGirl Gone Planning: Fear Mongering in the SuburbsIf you've been watching the Republican National Convention this week, you may have noticed a recurring theme of speakers who have been...
Daniel JeansonAug 14, 20203 minGirl Gone Planning: Be CountedThe following is a repost from Nov 2019. Fill out the Census today to make sure that your community gets the resources it deserves. The...
Daniel JeansonJul 8, 20203 minGirl Gone Planning: Once Again Albany DisappointsRegular readers of this blog will remember a post I wrote back in February imagining what a car-free Lark Street would look like. Then...
Daniel JeansonMay 18, 20203 minGirl Gone Planning: Will COVID kill the city?While the novel coronavirus keeps most of us holed up at home, sustained by an ever increasing deluge of deliveries of all kinds, some of...
Daniel JeansonApr 17, 20203 minGirl Gone Planning: Coronavirus' effect on the environment, the good and the bad.You may have seen some of the photos circulating online on cities previously suffocating in pollution now with beautiful blue skies and...
Daniel JeansonMar 26, 20203 minGirl Gone Planning: Working from home and the implications on planningAt 36, I've now had a job and been employed for nearly 20 years (briefly unemployed in 2008 after the computer store I worked at during...
Heather C FazioMar 12, 20202 minGirl Gone Planning: Prepare for massive binging!First, let's get the food binge out of the way. For the first time today I used the Instacart.com service and ordered from Market 32....
Daniel JeansonFeb 26, 20202 minGirl Gone Planning: Albany's new high schoolAlbany residents got a first glimpse at their newly renovated and expanded high school over the weekend, and from the pictures it looks...
Daniel JeansonFeb 13, 20203 minGirl Gone Planning: Imagining a car-free Lark Street (for a few hours a week)Think about some of the most magical urban places that you've visited in your life. Maybe it's a lovely town square in Milan, or a...
Daniel JeansonJan 28, 20202 minGirl Gone Planning: Axes Away in AlbanyFirst came the hot yoga studio, then the smoothie place, the brewery, and the dog walking service. Now the latest trend in gentrification...
Daniel JeansonNov 20, 20193 minGirl Gone Planning: Census 2020 or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Accept the CountIf you have been paying attention to the Trump administration, you're probably suffering from spinning head syndrome or whiplash. The...
Daniel JeansonOct 29, 20193 minGirl Gone Planning: Are Millennials Leaving the City for the Suburbs?Since the end of the Great Recession in 2010, one of the big stories in demographics and urban planning has been the trend of Millennials...
Daniel JeansonOct 20, 20193 minGirl Gone Planning: Lark Street Is A Model For Our Region And Is Getting A MakeoverLark Street between Washington and Madison Avenues in Albany is a popular mixed-use business district in the middle of an existing...
Daniel JeansonOct 2, 20192 minGirl Gone Planning: (Insert local transit provider here) SUCKSAnother day, another complaint about nearly any transit system from friends on Facebook who live here in Albany or elsewhere across the...
Daniel JeansonAug 16, 20195 minGirl Gone Planning: Racism & PlanningWhen most people learn about what I do, the first words that come to their mind (and out of their mouth) are usually one or more of the...
Daniel JeansonJul 26, 20192 minGirl Gone Planning: MilestonesAsk nearly anyone what constitutes a milestone and they will probably respond that it is an important event that marks the end of one arc...
Daniel JeansonJun 24, 20194 minGirl Gone Planning: InfrastructureOf all the topics inside and out of my professional life one that comes up directly or indirectly more than almost any other is...