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Community building versus economic development

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

," " Park View Residents Continue To Oppose Redevelopment at Bruce Monroe Park " Washington City Paper , also see " "Temporary" uses as a way to foil development: Bruce Monroe Elementary School site, DC | from school to park to housing "). Most economic development planners don't know the difference.

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Inner ring suburbs without Downtowns looking to create them

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

I started reading Crain's Detroit Business and both Warren--home to GM's technical engineering operations, and Livonia--primarily a community of residential housing, are both either developing or considering the development of downtowns. -- " Warren resurrects plans to develop a downtown " -- " Livonia wants to build a downtown.

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The town (or place) that art saved(?): arts as revitalization versus arts as community building

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Often, city arts functions are part of the "economic development" cluster of city agencies. For example, Arts Councils probably need to add some economic development planners. The Drury students came up with the idea for the House of Art(s). Art House Baltimore is the name of the project.It

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

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The effort was sparked by Park Bank, a locally focused community bank (" It shouldn't be a surprise that big banks are more comfortable dealing with large businesses | Community banking "), and its community development corporation which was doing a lot of housing rehabilitation. NPS Photo/Stephanie Schneider.

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Gaps in Parks Master Planning: Part One | Defining Levels of Service for individual parks

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

I am on the board of Sugar House Park, which is owned by both the city and county, so it has some interesting intergovernmental issues. For either a BID or a conservancy extra services are likely to include security, sanitation, capital improvements, and marketing and economic development activities. Technically.

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Big data/Machine Learning/AI as a policy savior

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

TPAPs should be implemented at multiple scales: (1) neighborhood/district/city/county wide as part of a master plan; (2) within functional elements of a master plan such as transportation, housing, or economic development; and (3) within a specific project (e.g.,

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Options for Expanding Property Tax Relief for Lower Income Homeowners

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Given the limitations on local property tax solutions, some neighborhood affordable housing organizations have encouraged the General Assembly to expand the Machinery Act’s existing property tax exemptions for homeowners. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

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