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People aren't "hanging out" as much outdoors during the workday in the center city

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

I e-talked with Anne Lusk about this, she is a researcher at Harvard School of Public Health, and wrote her dissertation on the community aspects of multi-use trails. In general, walkers appeared more atomized and rushed in 2010 than they had a generation before.

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Accelerating the secure exchange of public health data with AIMS, powered by Ruvos and AWS

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When battling infectious diseases and monitoring for emerging threats, how do public health officials determine their deployment of scarce resources and stay ahead of rapidly changing situations? The Association of Public Health Laboratories ( APHL ) understands the vital role that data plays in improving public health.

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

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Main Street commercial district revitalization practice grew out of HP and a desire to save "old buildings" in the face of the development of shopping centers, chain retail, and broken microeconomies. Very soon into my writing, before the blog, a bunch of DC cultural institutions failed, so this became an ongoing topic.

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I wonder if Mayor Fenty hadn't dissolved the Anacostia Waterfront Initiative in 2007, merging it into another city agency, if development would have happened faster?

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The Washington Post reports on a press conference in Anacostia, the most economically lagging area in DC, where the Mayor discussed improvements in the area, in association with a new building for the Department of Housing and Community Development, which was already there, in a not so old building (" After decades of disinvestment, D.C.’s

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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

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Freeways generate lots of particulate matter that is unhealthy (" Highway Air Pollution and Your Health: Six Things You Need To Know ," American Lung Association) and they are f* noisy (" Residential Exposure to Traffic Noise and Health-Related Quality of Life—A Population-Based Study "). Equitable development plan.

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Great quote about the orientation of US society and politics

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

This was partly because Democrats retained political dominance in the major cities where development promised the highest returns. But it was also because urban developers like Trump stood to benefit from federal investment in cities and mass transit, which would increase the valuation of their properties.

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African American History Month and Transportation: February 4th | Transit Equity Day

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

2, 2012, in Houston. But when a concerted organizing campaign was developed, she was chosen to be the face. For example, " Making bus service sexy and more equitable " (2012) discusses how investment in bus systems, network breadth and depth, and streetcars is a benefit for the transit dependent. 9, in Houston.