Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 18, 2024

Campaigns, especially focused on workers and the multiunit buildings, are in order. And they had "parking innovation districts" for awhile, but they were idiosyncratic, not systematic, and had many restrictions. I think a Roy Lichtenstein influenced livery, or the Multiplicity branding from Luxembourg would work. Above: Multiplicity bus.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Screenshot, Downtown Pittsburgh Partnership marketing campaign, 2009. Unkempt areas aren't places where people want to live (" Updating the post The "soft side" of commercial district revitalization ," 2006/2016). I haven't written about this being discussed in a number of places like DC (" D.C. People don't want to live in fear.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Amanda Browders Spectral Locus, 2016, included in ArtPrizes Project 1 biennial. Leimert Park is decently organized, and successfully campaigned for a more directly accessible transit station as part of a new line being developed to serve their area. Photo: Tom Loonan/Project 1. Last year, they had over 700,000 attendees at 50 events.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

In college in the early 1980s, the University of Michigan repositioned its focus on fundraising (what universities call "development") in part by hiring a top development official from Stanford, creating a new campaign, etc.--the the University has successful raised billions since.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

APRIL 10, 2025

Our data can help that outreach be more effective by identifying at risk households for targeted outreach campaigns. ” New York, NY: 2016; Way 2024. 2 (June 2015). In those cases, targeted outreach is needed to alert people to predatory actions and equip them with information and resources to protect themselves.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 1, 2024

Maybe the National Park Service Urban Agenda: A call to action initiative (2015) can help facilitate this, but I am not holding my breath. The award-winning orchid curtain in the Exhibition Hall at Longwood Gardens' 2015 Orchid Extravaganza. Another link. Also see " Leimert Theater: Envisioning a Neighborhood Landmark ," KCET.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 18, 2024

Years ago I wrote a piece (" Outline for a proposed Ward-focused (DC) Councilmember campaign platform and agenda ," 2015) about what would be an ideal approach to a truly ward-focused Councilmember election and governance platform, including having a dashboard on ward-specific data on traffic safety.

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