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Once home to a Neiman-Marcus department store, now closed, it's going to be torn down and redeveloped into retail and housing. WTOP reports that DC and MoCo are working to create a business improvement district to help improve the area (" Friendship Heights BID? DC and Montgomery Co. are working on it "). So I was missing the point.
Five are under the city-- Liberty, Pioneer, Fairmont, Jordan, and Sunnyside, and one, Sugar House, is owned by the city and county both, and run by an independent authority (I'm on the board). 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. There are six large city parks.
The third is preserving housing. I talked about this during the design process, and now that I am on the board of a park, I am proved right. There just aren't that many jobs. And my park is 110.5 Should have been addressed for decades. Plus the real problem in Anacostia is a broken micro-economy.
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. She did, for facade improvements in small towns, but didn't extend the concept to planning more generally.
To riff off this, there are five other elements at a minimum that matter a lot, that cities aren't budgeting or planning for, if their central business districts become meccas for housing: public safety. Or some housing on top of retail. Not mixed commercial use.
2, 2012, in Houston. 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. Urban design and minority communities. Scott, familiar to many Houston residents as the "bus lady," died Monday, Dec.
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