Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 21, 2024

A problem on Market East and in Philadelphia, they said, is the city government only contemplates the future in response to developers’ wishes. Plus they have a bias against development to begin with, think developers are monsters because they make profits, etc. Most economic development planners don't know the difference.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 20, 2024

about the importance of CapitalOne Arena on the development of Downtown's East End. Mike Kepka, San Francisco Chronicle, 2002. Fort Worth Star-Telegram ). I argued it would have happened anyway. said "no, the Arena has had significant impact." I was too parochial.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Screenshot, Downtown Pittsburgh Partnership marketing campaign, 2009. It had been happening for decades (" Having a Longer View on Downtown Living ," Eugenie Birch, University of Pennsylvania, 2002; Get Urban!: This reminds me that when Toronto did an urban grayfield development project in the 1970s, creating the St.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

These two recent entries recount many of the pieces as step by step I developed a more comprehensive approach to arts-based revitalization. -- " Lack of a system breeds more of the same: Source Theater, Washington DC, up for sale 2006, 2024 ," (2024) -- " The town (or place) that art saved(?):

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Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

JUNE 20, 2020

The scenario for a major pandemic was developed over the period 2003-2009 and was first incorporated into emergency plans close to the start of this period. Internationally, the greatest lesson of the previous SARS pandemic (2002-2004) was that international cooperation was the key to reducing its impact.

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Public Policy Blog

JANUARY 12, 2016

Bush administration in 2002. Intimacy matters in a day where we are maybe less interpersonally in touch than we have ever been as a result of technology which ironically was developed to keep us “more connected.” ” Take a look at previous #SOTU (2009 – present) observations from Pew Center for Research.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Freeways do go under the National Mall, and Capitol Crossing, a real estate development, has decked I-395 at Massachusetts. Conceptualized around 2002, it took 7 years to pull together the financing. Construction began in late 2009. It wasn't economic development. They are working to extend the park in a second phase.

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