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Community building versus economic development

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," " Park View Residents Continue To Oppose Redevelopment at Bruce Monroe Park " Washington City Paper , also see " "Temporary" uses as a way to foil development: Bruce Monroe Elementary School site, DC | from school to park to housing "). Most economic development planners don't know the difference.

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

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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). Often, city arts functions are part of the "economic development" cluster of city agencies.

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2023 Year-End Boxscore Charts, Billboard Magazine

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," 2024 The thing is to improve cities in the post industrial entertainment city paradigm, you have to do everything you can to attract patrons, and urk, even casinos (" As Bally's troubles mount, City Hall has to make sure casino is a winning bet ," Chicago Sun-Times ). -- " Crain's Chicago Business: Crain's Forum on Rebranding Chicago ," 2024 - " (..)

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

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It's not a matter of not knowing what to do, but how to get support and to pay for it. Center cities provide a kind of quality of life benefit to the suburbs, as they tend to provide more services and get more homeless individuals as a result.

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Revisiting the 11th Street Bridge Park project as an opportunity rather than a folly: a new revitalization agenda for East of the River, DC

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The third is preserving housing. The Urban Agenda calls for the unprecedented alignment of the entire agency by linking the work of national parks and programs to advance conservation, education, recreation, and economic development in urban areas. Economic development. There just aren't that many jobs.

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Hospitals as urban anchors/revitalization levers, not usually, but with great potential to serve communities in important ways: Examples are two forthcoming projects by Intermountain Health and University of Utah Health

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Hospitals can be strong supporters of community development efforts, but it has to be designed into the program from the outset. In August [2022], the hospital system opened its affordable housing project Vía Sana in Cleveland’s Clark-Fulton neighborhood. 5, signaling a new era of healthcare ," Cleveland Plain Dealer ).

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The story of the freeway deck park in Dallas, Klyde Warren Park

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It's a model for how I'd like to extend Sugar House Park in Salt Lake City, which abuts a section of I-80 that is about 40 acres. Construction began in late 2009. It wasn't economic development. There are a number of freeway deck parks around the country, dating to the 1970s in Seattle.