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Opposition to affordable housing in Chevy Chase, DC

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

s Chevy Chase neighborhood in uproar over affordable housing ," about how proposals for a new Chevy Chase Community Center, incorporating a variety of improvements as well as housing above, which could be either 100% affordable housing or partial, are being met by opposition. housed the homeless in upscale apartments.

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Urban planning when things are going well: DC, 2014 (The Office of Planning under Harriet Tregoning)

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Planners are tasked with considering the future and dealing with it, not trying to prevent change necessarily, but instead working to manage it and mitigate and limit negative effects, in ways that are good for the city in general and neighborhoods specifically, simultaneously. At the same time, there is a different cleavage. U Street NW.

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Responding to retail decay in Friendship Heights (DC/Montgomery County, Maryland)

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Once home to a Neiman-Marcus department store, now closed, it's going to be torn down and redeveloped into retail and housing. In the beginning of my Main Street days (2002) districts like Dupont Circle pushed for being included. DC and Montgomery Co. are working on it "). So I was missing the point.

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Partnership unveils the 2024 Service to America Medals® finalists

Partnership for Public Service

Management Excellence – recognizing a federal employee or team for delivering results through superior leadership and exceptional management skills. White House Cabinet Secretary Evan Ryan delivered special remarks. The finalists also visited the White House later in the day. to be acknowledged for their tremendous work.

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2023 Year-End Boxscore Charts, Billboard Magazine

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Mike Kepka, San Francisco Chronicle, 2002. The reality is that he was right (" More sports: sports-anchored entertainment districts and LA Live." I was too parochial. Look at all the people going to a San Francisco Giants baseball game, and taking transit.

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20th anniversary of the blog| Urban revitalization systems thinking's greatest hits: Part two -- not transportation

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

. -- " 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(?): 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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The New Orthodoxy

Public Purpose - An Independent Advisory Company

And that should be better not just for the hard infrastructure, but for the ‘soft’ pieces too, like identity, privacy, the management of information, data and data sharing, payments. 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.