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

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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. Uncleared sidewalks from 1300 East to Sugar House Park. Levels of Service at the scale of an individual park is an issue with Sugar House Park. Technically.

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Eastern Market DC's 150th anniversary last weekend | And my never realized master plan for the market

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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. Cannon's Steak House was a premier restaurant in the old Florida Market District, just like St. Anselm's is today. Postcard image.

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Third place issues

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Buildings are envelopes. -- " More thoughts on suburban hipness (it's really about commercial hipness generally, not urban vs. suburban) ," 2013 -- " BTMFBA Chronicles: Seattle coffee shop raises money to buy its building ," 2018 This came up in DC many years ago. That you can have a cool space, even if the exterior is dull. Photo: " D.C.’s

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Gaps in Parks Master Planning, Part Six | Art(s) in the Park(s) as a comprehensive program

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Plein Air for the Park is a fundraiser for Grand Teton National Park, where professional artists paint a park scene, and the paintings are sold (" Plein Air in Grand Teton National Park ," Homestead Magazine ). After the last one I went to, I joked "we don't need to do one in Sugar House Park. Maybe as part of a competition.

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Gaps in Parks Master Planning, Part Six | Art(s) in the Park(s) as a comprehensive program

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Plein Air for the Park is a fundraiser for Grand Teton National Park, where professional artists paint a park scene, and the paintings are sold (" Plein Air in Grand Teton National Park ," Homestead Magazine ). Maybe as part of a competition. Many programs. Monuments that are controversial.