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Gaps in Parks Master Planning: Part Two | Academic Research as Guidance

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When parks master plans don't have specific guidance about facilities or what to do, I think we can and should reference evidence-based academic research, focusing on those studies with findings that demonstrate in practical ways for engaging people in outdoor recreation and fitness activities. Strategies to increase physical activity.

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20th anniversary of the blog| Urban revitalization systems thinking's greatest hits: Part two -- not transportation

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Other cities have differently named similar organizations. Generally, they have the power to weigh in on matters before government bodies.

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Revisiting the 11th Street Bridge Park project as an opportunity rather than a folly: a new revitalization agenda for East of the River, DC

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Elizabeths I suggested this as part of a three part series on an innovative strategy for public health and wellness programming as part of building a new hospital. Medical education campus at St. Obviously it was too ambitious for DC, and maybe the biotechnology business development element is a stretch.

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The Road Not Taken | a response to a letter to the editor in the Washington Post about DC, traffic deaths and traffic safety

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In preparing for that interview, I looked at the websites for all of the city's Advisory Neighborhood Commssions (ANCs are block and neighborhood specific councils that weigh in on matters before DC government) and just a handful had transportation/public space committees. And public health.

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Privatization of municipal utility systems (water mostly)

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What comes next? ," Harvard School of Public Health; " Supreme Court uses 'shadow docket' to revive Trump EPA clean water rule ," Reuters), and fines are so much higher in the US, that privatized water utilities are less likely to go rogue the way they do in the UK. Flint, King George's County, Virginia, etc.)