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Arts as production: The rock music ecosystem in West Seattle

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Part 1: Conceptualising Cultural Quarters " ( Planning, Practice & Research, 18:4)," to music as a performing art in terms of developing "music as production" as opposed to "music as consumption." Owner Matt Vaughan founded West Seattle’s Easy Street Records during what he terms the “slacker era” of the late ’80s.

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Louisville Courier-Journal mobile newsroom initiative and Salt Lake Tribune Innovations Lab

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As part of this program, they're spending three weeks basing their "mobile newsroom" in a library in the Okolona district in the outlying county section of Louisville-Jefferson County (the city and county merged in 2003). From " Why The Courier Journal is bringing its newsroom to your neighborhood ": Here’s the truth.

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A follow up on the H Street article: Learning from Philadelphia | More sophisticated daypart, retail, cultural, and experience planning

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It might be that more neighborhood embedded districts, like Eastern Market (" Eastern Market DC's 150th anniversary last weekend | And my never realized master plan for the market ") or H Street have a better shot at developing the retail offer. Retail store development. But it has to be very focused.

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H Street NE nightlife district, failing?

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And probably the death of Joe Englert, the impresario who helped develop many of the early establishments on the corridor, many with particularly interesting and creative business models, hasn't helped. My overall take is that revitalization and commercial district success requires constant, ongoing management.

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Relearning old lessons: Urban economics, agglomeration economies, and adaptive reuse of "a large stock of old buildings"

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Agglomeration economies and the biotech cluster in Cambridge Massachusetts.The Globe article explains why I am such a proponent of face to face, cluster development and agglomeration economies. Attendance at Thursday night programs and networking events at Venture Care have drawn an average of 419 people this fall, up from353 in 2019.

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Capital One Arena, Wizards and Capitals may move to Alexandria | Why not the RFK campus?

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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. Other areas too.)

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Metrorail Silver Line phase two opening this week

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Washington Post , July 13, 2003. There would be plenty of benefits for DC, discussed here, "" If DC had visionary elected officials and planners it could use the new WMATA "BOS" study to push through the development of a separated Silver Line in DC (and Northern Virginia) ," 2019). Extending the Silver Line to Leesburg.