Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Unkempt areas aren't places where people want to live (" Updating the post The "soft side" of commercial district revitalization ," 2006/2016). sustainable mobility. People don't want to live in fear. cleanliness. Center cities can be pretty dirty. schools (and daycare). In general, people don't want schools to be bad.

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Public Safety Parks And Recreation Housing Campaign 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 21, 2022

From a PI blog entry in 2015 : The Navy Yard development is home to GlaxoSmithKline, Urban Outfitters, a Marriott and about 140 other companies. Union Station railyard with MARC commuter train in the foreground. About 13,000 people work there.

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Transportation Development Economic Development Government 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

DC does not understand its "unique selling proposition" or "core competency" is being transit- and sustainable mobility-centric. Create sustainable mobility districts and corridors as appropriate, complementing the transit network improvements, especially in the Tysons area, which is planned, but far behind in implementation.

Elected Officials 52

Elected Officials Transportation Sustainability Operations 52

PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting

AUGUST 30, 2016

PBB contributes to a community’s long-term financial sustainability and allows communities to better serve their residents in the most effective, efficient and fiscally responsible manner possible. The City of Boulder, Colorado recently stated that " priority based budgeting is the "framework" in which all budget decisions are made."

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

: arts as revitalization versus arts as community building ," (2024) In 2009, I gave a presentation at the Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas conference about "arts districts" and theatre as an example of an artistic-discipline focused approach. -- " Arts, culture districts and revitalization ," (2009) In 2015 I made the network/cultural (..)

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Transportation Parks And Recreation Economic Development Urban Planning 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MAY 10, 2024

For example, in a blog entry in 2016, I suggested that such information be provided at the Council District scale and that ward-focused committees address traffic safety and sustainable mobility in concerted ways.

Transportation 52

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 20, 2023

. -- " The answer is: Create a single multi-state/regional multi-modal transit planning, management, and operations authority association ," 2017 --" Verkehrsverbund: The evolution and spread of fully integrated regional public transport in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland ," Ralph Buehler, John Pucher & Oliver Dümmler, International Journal of (..)

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

In fact, I mention that as an issue a lot in terms of funding.

Transportation 52

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 18, 2024

The fact is, except for overly wide avenues, the L'Enfant Plan design for the city and its network of streets and sidewalks prioritizes sustainable modes--walking, biking, and transit. It's amazing how much I've written about this topic, providing guidance for something that could have been great. Ward focused traffic safety programming.

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Transportation Campaign Public Health Laws 40

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 11, 2024

The failure to think about those failures in terms of rethinking the local arts ecosystem as a network led to pieces such as: -- " More on (DC's) Cultural Infrastructure ," 2009 -- " Building the arts and culture ecosystem in DC: Part One, sustained efforts vs. one-off or short term initiatives ," 2015 -- " The song remains the same: DC's continued (..)

Community Development 52

Community Development Nonprofit Development Management 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

focused on capturing worker trips but open to all ," (2017) -- " Revisiting assistance programs to get people biking: 26 programs ," (2024, original 2015, updated 2020) -- " Repeating b.s. Sustainable mobility platform : this builds off transit to include urban design and multiple modes.

Transportation 52

Transportation Sustainability Parks And Recreation Development 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 4, 2024

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. Anti-Semitic vandalism on Anish Kapoor’s Dirty Corner, Versailles, France, 2015.

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Parks And Recreation Engagement Sustainability Security 52