Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

It's a broken record because they don't own their properties. -- " From BTMFBA to "community right to buy" ," (2024) -- " BTMFBA: the best way to ward off artist or retail displacement is to buy the building ," (2016) -- " BTMFBA: maintaining arts spaces in the face of rising real estate values | Seattle, New York City ," (2024) -- " New form of BTMFBA (..)

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MAY 9, 2023

I would have an agenda, provide "education time" so people can be exposed to best practice insights, featuring well known academics and other professionals, and go from there. Academic insight. And there is a lot of work on "violence interruption." I go back and forth about it, but there is some potential there.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 1, 2024

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. What if the park sponsored daily educational enrichment activities for the young people in nearby neighborhoods? Admission to Longwood Gardens --incredibly beautiful--is $25.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

APRIL 10, 2025

Outreach and public education should be targeted both by neighborhood and by the characteristics and vulnerabilities of particular homeowners. Provide zoning-related education. ” Atlanta, GA: 2013; Moodie et al. ” New York, NY: 2016; Way 2024. 244 (2019): 89–92; Georgia Appleseed 2013.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Also see " Back to school #2: education unions should create multifaceted public education "meeting halls" comparable to AIA chapter "architecture centers" " (2016). Union halls and fraternal organizations too (like the Masons). That you can have a cool space, even if the exterior is dull. There are two problems.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

This was proposed a number of years ago for EM, first in the Barry Administration and then around 2012-2013, but the vendors fought it, with the support of now Mayor Muriel Bowser. Use spaces in an expanded Eastern Market campus, such as for a volunteer fair (" Community engagement #1: Capitol Hill Volunteer Fair this Saturday ," 2016).

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

With tens of millions in federal funding, the selected consortiums—made up of state and local governments, educational institutions, businesses and community groups in 32 states and Puerto Rico—now have an opportunity to turn themselves into global players in advanced technology. Learning from Europe: Knowledge locations in cities.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 19, 2023

I have been interested in the opportunity for higher education infused urban revitalization for decades. Leveraging higher education institutions for urban economic development. It is possible to leverage higher education institutions in important ways. I find DC's planning around higher education to be pretty disappointing.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MAY 19, 2025

After my grand jury service in 2013, I was left with the thought that DC spends a couple billion dollars per year just to keep the low income parts of the system the same, at a negative equilibrium. They find jobs for strapped parents, treatment for first offenders, and vocational education for at-risk teens.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 4, 2024

Some parks or recreation centers might have arts production facilities like a kiln for ceramics and arts education programs. Music in the American Wild ( webpage , Eastman School of Music) was a program where new music compositions were commissioned to play in 12 National Parks, in honor of the 100th anniversary of the park system in 2016.

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Parks And Recreation Engagement Sustainability Security 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 24, 2023

It's fair to say that in NYC Mayor De Blasio cares a lot less about this than former Mayor Bloomberg (" A Playbook on the Politics of Better Streets ," Bloomberg), and in DC, most elected officials are from "the outer city" where the automobile remains dominant (" DC as a suburban agenda dominated city ," 2013).

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