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

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Can murals be a gateway to a more developed revitalization program? 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. But I'm not sure good the average arts council is on these functions either.

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What Was Wrong with the Washington DC Streetcar

Human Transit

That’s because the X2, as a bus, is able to operate a complete corridor linking to logical endpoints, and functioning as part of a high-frequency grid. That depends (in part) on ridership, which depends on the land use that actually develops around the line, not just what the boosters fantasize.

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The GSEs and the Incoming Trump Administration: Part 1 of 2 – Answering Ten Key Questions About Conservatorship Exit

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

The incoming presidential administration of Donald Trump (Trump II) is now developing key policy priorities to implement once it takes office in January. Will Trump II aim, in developing a post-exit business model, to primarily satisfy the members of its political coalition who are small-government conservatives?

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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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Traffic-related fatalities continue to rise in multiple cities.

American City & Country

Are outdated government operations to blame for Vision Zero failures? In Los Angeles, 303 people died in traffic accidents in 2024 , up from 240 in 2015, the year the city launched Vision Zero. In Los Angeles, 303 people died in traffic accidents in 2024 , up from 240 in 2015, the year the city launched Vision Zero.

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The Heavy Lift to Implement GSE Reform-Recap-Release: Market-Improving Reforms (Part 4 of 4)

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

” Part 4 completes the series by addressing a category of reforms that are not well known: those enacted by the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) to improve the operations of F&F and, through them, positively impact the broader American housing finance market, which I dub “market-improving reforms.”

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". road redesigns are always going to controversial and challenging in an urban landscape designed for, but now overwhelmed by, cars"

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The moratorium would run from May 2025 to March 2026 as state transportation officials study all the traffic-calming projects the city had implemented or planned to build from July 2015 to July 2035. The project, called Move Culver City , was a 1.3 Planning and building for the city you want to be versus planning for the past.