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OCTOBER 17, 2022

I've written a few entries on this topic in the past year and over the years: -- " Next Level Clustering of Business away from the Midwest, " 2022 -- " Boeing to move "headquarters" to Northern Virginia ," 2022 -- " How the closure of a Pfizer research center in Ann Arbor, Michigan led to the development of a biotech sector there ," 2021 -- " Why do (..)

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 19, 2022

I've written a bunch of articles on music as an element of the local arts ecosystem: -- " Ground up (guerrilla) art #2: community halls and music (among other things) ," 2011 -- " Under threat: Austin's music industry as an element of the city's cultural ecosystem and economy ," 2016 -- " Leveraging music for cultural and economic development: part (..)

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

can do to start working better together as a region (Baltimore Business Journal op-ed ," 2016), and I support efforts to do this for St. Later I suggested this for Baltimore City and County (" Opinion: What Baltimore and D.C. Louis City and County (" St. Louis: what would I recommend for a comprehensive revitalization program?

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PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

Adding to the complexity, the answers to these questions might vary depending on service area (ie public education, economic development, etc). Who Benefits from Nonprofit Economic Development? Examining the Revenue Distribution of Tax-Exempt Development Organizations among U.S. References. LeRoux, Kelly.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 16, 2024

It's also another lesson about planning and development.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 20, 2024

Doubling down on place values ," 2022 -- " From more space to socially distance to a systematic program for pedestrian districts (Park City (Utah) Main Street Car Free on Sundays) ," 2020 -- " Planning programming by daypart, month, season: and Boston Winter Garden, DC's Holiday Market, etc. ," 2016 -- " Daypart and age-group planning in mixed use (..)

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 12, 2023

From the WBJ : “I think that Chinatown will be fine even if the Verizon Center is moved,” said Ed McMahon, a senior resident fellow with the Urban Land Institute. Because downtown D.C. has come back to life.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 21, 2022

Union Station railyard with MARC commuter train in the foreground.

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

JULY 18, 2023

.” – Mayor Douglas Shere The most recent government statistics available on areas with low numbers of or access to grocery stores is from 2016, part of the federal Food Environment Atlas. By 2016, it had lost that store. In 2011, Camden County, in far eastern North Carolina, had only one grocery.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Parking at Reston Town Center, Fairfax County, Virginia ," (2016) I first developed the concept of action planning, in observing some remarkable best practice government initiatives.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 15, 2023

. -- " University President Freeman Hrabowski and an agenda for urban universities ," 2021 -- " President of Washington State University dies: fostered development of the "University District" adjacent to Downtown Spokane ," 2015 -- " Universities as elements of urban/downtown revitalization: the Portland State story and more ," 2014 -- " Better2016 (..)

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 1, 2024

The Urban Agenda calls for the unprecedented alignment of the entire agency by linking the work of national parks and programs to advance conservation, education, recreation, and economic development in urban areas. Economic development. Admission to Longwood Gardens --incredibly beautiful--is $25.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

The Department of Defense as a customer of technology firms has also spurred economic development. Federal laboratories too have different success rates for spurring the development and adoption of new technologies and business opportunities. Learning from Europe: Knowledge locations in cities.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 19, 2023

Similarly, the creation of Appalachian School of Law in rural Virginia was touted as a way to build the economic power of the region (" Appalachian School of Law receives final installment of $6 million funding package ," Bluefield Daily Telegraph ). Leveraging higher education institutions for urban economic development.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 14, 2025

Often this was the case for countries with natural resources and extraction/enclave development, where first world companies would extract resources with little focus on regional economic development. being examples (" Oil dependence | The US as a Petro-state and gasoholic | and war ," 2022).

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

The problem is it hasn't been effectuated very much at the neighborhood scale: -- " Intra-neighborhood (tertiary) transit revisited because of new San Diego service ," (2016) 4. And such modes are often as much about economic development as they are about transit. A streetcar serves a sub-district of a city, usually.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 24, 2023

I was thinking about it, that it's because transit agencies don't think much or focus on how what they do improves places, adds to economic development, reduces motor vehicle use, etc. Railroads too were active in promoting economic development, especially the recruitment of manufacturing plants, the growing of crops, etc.,

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