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What should the program for a Transportation Management District look like?

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

At the time, my focus was trying to create a shared parking scenario, and to invest in sustainable mobility. Promoting biking, walking, and other sustainable modes is another element of TDM. Campaigns, especially focused on workers and the multiunit buildings, are in order. I'd say definitely not, the ridership is abysmal.

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

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

But close encounters during the rest of the week were a selling point in the successful campaign to lure the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health, a new federal research agency known as ARPA-H, to Cambridge, said O’Connell, the MassBio CEO. Cultural Quarters as Mechanisms for Urban Regeneration.

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WMATA is pathetic: of course it belongs to "the public"

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

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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The town (or place) that art saved(?): arts as revitalization versus arts as community building

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

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). By agenda I mean the set of challenges which policy makers accord priority. The state later developed its own program.

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The unintended consequences of converting office buildings to housing: the need for public safety; schools; amenities

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Screenshot, Downtown Pittsburgh Partnership marketing campaign, 2009. sustainable mobility. I haven't written about this being discussed in a number of places like DC (" D.C. It had been happening for decades (" Having a Longer View on Downtown Living ," Eugenie Birch, University of Pennsylvania, 2002; Get Urban!:

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Social Media for Social Good: What role does social media play in creation of and sustainability of social movements? A Social Movement Case Study Examining Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party.

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As more of the world becomes connected online, revolutionaries across the globe are being empowered like never before although not all are successful as sustaining the movement the use of information communication technologies (ICT) are critical in developing and executing modern social movements.