Girl Gone Planning: 89 People
The US Census reporte preliminary numbers for their 2020 count on Monday and it reported that New York would be losing a House seat (and...
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Daniel Jeanson
- Apr 23, 2021
- 3 min
Girl 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 Jeanson
- Feb 18, 2021
- 4 min
Texas Should Be A Warning For Us All
The devastation that is unfolding in Texas is heartbreaking to watch and infuriating to know that it could have been avoided. This post...
Daniel Jeanson
- Aug 27, 2020
- 2 min
Girl Gone Planning: Fear Mongering in the Suburbs
If you've been watching the Republican National Convention this week, you may have noticed a recurring theme of speakers who have been...
Daniel Jeanson
- Aug 14, 2020
- 3 min
Girl Gone Planning: Be Counted
The 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 Jeanson
- Jul 8, 2020
- 3 min
Girl Gone Planning: Once Again Albany Disappoints
Regular 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 Jeanson
- May 18, 2020
- 3 min
Girl 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 Jeanson
- Apr 17, 2020
- 3 min
Girl 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 Jeanson
- Mar 26, 2020
- 3 min
Girl Gone Planning: Working from home and the implications on planning
At 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 Fazio
- Mar 12, 2020
- 2 min
Girl 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 Jeanson
- Feb 26, 2020
- 2 min
Girl Gone Planning: Albany's new high school
Albany residents got a first glimpse at their newly renovated and expanded high school over the weekend, and from the pictures it looks...
Daniel Jeanson
- Feb 13, 2020
- 3 min
Girl 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 Jeanson
- Jan 28, 2020
- 2 min
Girl Gone Planning: Axes Away in Albany
First came the hot yoga studio, then the smoothie place, the brewery, and the dog walking service. Now the latest trend in gentrification...
Daniel Jeanson
- Nov 20, 2019
- 3 min
Girl Gone Planning: Census 2020 or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Accept the Count
If you have been paying attention to the Trump administration, you're probably suffering from spinning head syndrome or whiplash. The...
Daniel Jeanson
- Oct 29, 2019
- 3 min
Girl 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 Jeanson
- Oct 20, 2019
- 3 min
Girl Gone Planning: Lark Street Is A Model For Our Region And Is Getting A Makeover
Lark Street between Washington and Madison Avenues in Albany is a popular mixed-use business district in the middle of an existing...
Daniel Jeanson
- Oct 2, 2019
- 2 min
Girl Gone Planning: (Insert local transit provider here) SUCKS
Another day, another complaint about nearly any transit system from friends on Facebook who live here in Albany or elsewhere across the...
Daniel Jeanson
- Aug 16, 2019
- 5 min
Girl Gone Planning: Racism & Planning
When 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 Jeanson
- Jul 26, 2019
- 2 min
Girl Gone Planning: Milestones
Ask 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 Jeanson
- Jun 24, 2019
- 4 min
Girl Gone Planning: Infrastructure
Of all the topics inside and out of my professional life one that comes up directly or indirectly more than almost any other is...