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Florida's Brightline passenger rail as an opportunity to rearticulate and extend transit service in cities like Orlando

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A way to do this would be to organize transport associations in South Florida, Orlando, and Tampa, to coordinate transit services. Petersburg Metropolitan Area ," 2017). It may be the best "in real life" example of the point I make about linking new infrastructure with complementary improvements across the transit network.

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

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Often places have "lots of" parking, but it's spread out across multiple properties, and they don't coordinate. Coordinating Parking/Developing a shared parking scenario One of the big problems with capitalism is every property does its own thing. Promoting biking, walking, and other sustainable modes is another element of TDM.

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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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Also see " A National Mall-focused heritage (replica) streetcar service to serve visitors is a way bigger idea than a parking garage under the Mall ," 2013. Get the parks working together and coordinated. The student asked me about the equitable development plan , which I wasn't involved in developing It has a bunch of points.

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

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We mostly dealt with drug and gun crimes, but got robberies, assaults, murder, etc.

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20th anniversary of the blog| Urban revitalization systems thinking's greatest hits: Part three -- transportation

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Transportation management districts : in 2006 I suggested that DC create "transportation management districts" to coordinate modes within subdistricts of the city. DC has a form of a TMD around parking, but they are very idiosyncratic, not much overall structure and coordination. Arlington and Montgomery Counties have them.

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Revitalization in a distressed residential-industrial neighborhood: Pullman, Chicago, Illinois

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From the study: Place-based investing seeks to create positive economic and social returns in a given geography—say, a neighborhood: Pullman—through a coordinated influx of capital and development. And why spending upwards of $200 million on community improvement doesn't seem to have immediate effect.

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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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Prolific proponent of the networked society Manuel Castells (2011) describes mass media being displaced by mass self-communication (Deluca, Lawson, & Sun, 2012) in altering the communication model from one-to-one to many-to-many. 2011; Aday, et al., 2013; Bennett, Breunig, & Givens, 2008). A study by Vragara et al.,