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Parks and Rec Brings the Fun — Episode 023

Open Space Radio: Parks and Recreation Trends

Kageyama is an author, whose book For the Love of Cities: The Love Affair Between People and Their Places was recognized in 2012 as a Top 10 Book in urban planning, design and development.

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DC's 11th Street Bridge Park project

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

I have discussed undergrounding/decking for North Capitol Street, the Southeast-Southwest Freeway, and parts of Connecticut Avenue in the core. -- " DC and "city repair" of the urban grid ," 2020 Freeway undergrounding and removal is a trendy move in urban planning these days (" Can Removing Highways Fix America's Cities? ," New York Times ).

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Department stores are an "urban technology" built for walking not driving

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

. -- " Responding to retail decay in Friendship Heights (DC/Montgomery County, Maryland) ," 2023 -- " Friendship Heights and the production of retail decay ," 2020 -- " Urban decay and sprawl: one community's gain at the expense of another's ," 2011 -- " A brief lesson in "incentivizing" supermarkets and department stores ," 2007 -- " Why it's okay (..)

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Responding to retail decay in Friendship Heights (DC/Montgomery County, Maryland)

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The reality is that then successful districts like Friendship Heights and Georgetown still faced voracious competition, but from the suburbs (" Turnabout is fair play: why Topher Matthews/GGW is wrong about TIF incentives for a department store in Georgetown ," 2012). So I was missing the point.

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

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

" Since I got involved in urban revitalization I argued that DC had five competitive advantages: 1. an urban design dating from the walking and transit city eras of urban development, therefore supporting walkability, transit, and biking 3. historic architecture 2. Flickr photo by Chiara Coetzee.

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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

Equitable development plan. The student asked me about the equitable development plan , which I wasn't involved in developing It has a bunch of points. First is workforce development. Who wants to hang out by a freeway? There just aren't that many jobs. A lot more about that below.

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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

This reminds me that when Toronto did an urban grayfield development project in the 1970s, creating the St. Lawrence neighborhood, schools and other public assets (like a children's theater space, medical clinic, health club) were incorporated into the apartment buildings (" Directions for New Urban Neighbourhoods: Learning from St.