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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.

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The New Orthodoxy

Public Purpose - An Independent Advisory Company

The function of government is to provide a mix of policies, regulations and services that ensure fair and equal access to the benefits and opportunities of a sustainable prosperity forged from a contemporary focus on “commerce”, climate and care. No point replicating all that either. So is this a problem? Well, in many ways it isn’t.

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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

A couple years later I helped Brookland create one, and later served as a program manager in Brookland. . -- " 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(?):