Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Since 2003, when I was on the board of H Street Main Street, and advocating that the group create a housing growth strategy in its retail trade area, I suggested that the RFK parking lots, especially along Benning Road, should be converted to housing and mixed use development. October 24, 2002. Other areas too.)

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Public Purpose - An Independent Advisory Company

JUNE 5, 2021

I’ve been a small part of the “prophet in the wilderness’ period, penning my first essay on the wonders of eGovernment in about 2002. I’m from the policy side of the house, if I’m from any side, more than the service or technology side. So is this a problem? Well, in many ways it isn’t.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 22, 2025

Development of new housing and retail is happening even outside of the city core, albeit mostly centered around subway stations (Columbia Heights, Petworth, Fort Totten, Takoma, U Street), but even in a couple areas (14th Street, H Street) where subway access is tangential. U Street NW. Revival spreads beyond the city core.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

the Diffusion of Innovations Curve of Everett Rogers ," (2018) -- " Yes the neighborhood will change, but it will take 10-25 years ," (2018) -- " House flipping as reproduction of space ," (2018) -- " Q: Could a community land trust help solve D.C.s It's not a matter of not knowing what to do, but how to get support and to pay for it.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 7, 2022

It had been happening for decades (" Having a Longer View on Downtown Living ," Eugenie Birch, University of Pennsylvania, 2002; Get Urban!: To riff off this, there are five other elements at a minimum that matter a lot, that cities aren't budgeting or planning for, if their central business districts become meccas for housing: public safety.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 13, 2025

TRAX came about because of the 2002 Winter Olympics and I think it functions pretty well within its transit shed (" Updating the mobilityshed / mobility shed concept " and " Manhattan Institute misses the point about the value of light rail transit connections to airports | Utility and the network effect: the transit network as a platform ").

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

It's a model for how I'd like to extend Sugar House Park in Salt Lake City, which abuts a section of I-80 that is about 40 acres. Conceptualized around 2002, it took 7 years to pull together the financing. There are a number of freeway deck parks around the country, dating to the 1970s in Seattle. Construction began in late 2009.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 8, 2025

Certainly, the automobile manufacturing industry including parts like tires, oil companies, and residential housing builders, financiers, etc., E.g., Salt Lake City is small and has LR because of the 2002 Olympics. Plus, the car and freedom were seen as "better" than mass transit. Homogeneous versus heterogenous mobility systems.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 24, 2023

Now the Intermodal Center just houses intercity bus services. -- Rio Grande Plan The plan proposes a tunnel to redirect the railroad passenger services back to the station, as well as a rerouting of the Trax Green Line, with railroad service in a tunnel behind the station and light rail service in front of the station.

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Public Policy Blog

JANUARY 12, 2016

Bush administration in 2002. These efforts build on previous White House efforts to connect with users across a range of social media sites and make the experience of the speech appropriate to each platform. And finally, keep engaging with the White House: We’re listening” (Goldman). Bush in 2004. No small feat.

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