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Purple Line Corridor Coalition study: Same Old, Same Old | Gentrification will result from investment in transit infrastructure

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Poster board from the 2014 meetings. And it turns out I had written something similar in 2007!!!!!! -- " It's time to create the "Port Authority" of Montgomery and Prince George's Counties " That was true in 2014 and 2007, and is still true in 2022. CDC,s can be such a tool.

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Another attempt to raise discussion about the DC Height Limit

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I argue this was because the DC side was full of hubris--we have the city's interests at the foremost they intimated, and because they failed to think in the slightest in how to make the argument about how the current residents would benefit. Social urbanism and equity planning.

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

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Intra-district shuttle systems Item # 5 in " Creating a Silver Spring "Sustainable Mobility District" | Part 2: Program items 1 - 9 ," discusses how to implement an integrated parking-shuttle system in Silver Spring, Maryland. a Bike Expo in association with the 5 Boro Ride, which had more than 100 exhibitors and 50,000 attendees in 2014.

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

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I think this project is a good example of my " best practice revitalization planning " approach, including the elements: a robust plan an implementation organization funding serendipity -- jumping on opportunities, like the National Monument recognition of the length of time required to execute the program Planning relevance.

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What is the competitive advantage for the post-covid city? Doubling down on place values

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Is there a way for such commercial and neighborhood revitalization and management programs to be developed and implemented at a scale that doesn't reach that of the groups that typify downtowns and large parks? I'm not into it, but it's a kind of extension of that idea, but for space and place. Flickr photo by Chiara Coetzee.

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Metrorail Silver Line phase two opening this week

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First, Virginia's focus on privatization, which is why the Silver Line was not built by Metro (" Silver Line delays: maybe the real lesson is that contracting out construction to the private sector doesn't always work so well ," 2014). You don't complain about system problems when it opens, but before.

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

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Part 2: Implementation Approach and Levers ," (2021) -- " Revisiting St. to fix bad practices, make them democratic instead of just eliminating them ," (2012) (also discusses participatory budgeting) Note that the network concept applies to parks and libraries friends groups, and school PTAs as well. Even neighborhood associations.