Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 11, 2024

My entry on arts districts and arts as consumption versus arts as production is about this kind of approach (" Reprinting with a slight update, "Arts, culture districts and revitalization" ," originally 2009, revised 2019). Again, I think this is community building. Pittsburgh.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Screenshot, Downtown Pittsburgh Partnership marketing campaign, 2009. From the article: In a first for the province — and believed to be unique in Canada — a “vertical school” will be built into the third floor of the project on Lake Shore Blvd. I haven't written about this being discussed in a number of places like DC (" D.C.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 18, 2024

The Tribune article asks the question of whether or not the streetcar is contributing to traffic reduction. Campaigns, especially focused on workers and the multiunit buildings, are in order. The journal article " Making Cycling Irresistible ," inspired my own blog entry in 2008, " Ideas for Making Cycling Irresistible in DC."

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

In college in the early 1980s, the University of Michigan repositioned its focus on fundraising (what universities call "development") in part by hiring a top development official from Stanford, creating a new campaign, etc.--the the University has successful raised billions since.

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Public Policy Blog

JANUARY 3, 2014

It doesn’t take long before thousands of Facebook users join these pages (Fieser, 2009). Not surprisingly, there is growing scholarly interest in the mediation of activism and political campaigning. In the past there was nowhere for this kind of sentiment to go. Now it collects, solidifies and expresses itself online.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 1, 2024

From the article: Surveying the 30-plus public gardens, arboretums, historical landscapes, and support groups that comprise Greater Philadelphia Gardens, consulting firm Econsult Solutions added up the digits and found an economic impact of $256 million a year, a big boon for the tourism industry. s Black arts scene ," Post ).

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Parks And Recreation Education Development Economic Development 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

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. But it seems that people have a hard time learning or retaining previous knowledge, so sadly these kinds of points need to be constantly repeated.

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