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What is the competitive advantage for the post-covid city? Doubling down on place values

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Five are under the city-- Liberty, Pioneer, Fairmont, Jordan, and Sunnyside, and one, Sugar House, is owned by the city and county both, and run by an independent authority (I'm on the board). For example, one of the things I am lobbying for in Salt Lake is to create an evening shift for park maintenance. There are six large city parks.

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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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Bilbao as an example of Transformational Projects Action Planning ," 2017 But I have to say that the student "inspired me" to rethink of the bridge park as an opportunity to reshape revitalization planning and practice in Anacostia. The third is preserving housing. There just aren't that many jobs. And my park is 110.5

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

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Once too, I misheard a presentation at a conference, and I thought the presenter said she applies "graphic design" approaches to urban planning. She did, for facade improvements in small towns, but didn't extend the concept to planning more generally.

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The unintended consequences of converting office buildings to housing: the need for public safety; schools; amenities

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To riff off this, there are five other elements at a minimum that matter a lot, that cities aren't budgeting or planning for, if their central business districts become meccas for housing: public safety. Or some housing on top of retail. Not mixed commercial use.

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Women's History Month and urban planning

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In any case, such divisions are often artificial, with women in developing-world cities undertaking economic activity that has too often been ignored. -- " Female-Friendly Cities: Rethinking the Patriarchy of Urban Planning ," Ms. For the most part, links have not been checked. Women as planners and architects. 3, Supplement.

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African American History Month and Transportation: February 4th | Transit Equity Day

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Urban design and minority communities. More recently the Biden Administration developed an initiative to fund measures to rebuild connections and address manufactured disparities within disconnected communities (" Transit projects receive more than $1 billion in federal grants designed to reconnect communities ," Mass Transit ).