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JANUARY 22, 2025

Since 2003 the city has been growing--even with the recent hiccup of the recession + a slowing and braking on urban growth because of some shrinkage of the activity of federal government, especially in terms of leased office space and personnel. Our house is detached, and five miles from Downtown (but 3/4 mile from a Metrorail station).

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MARCH 10, 2024

See the Boston Globe article, " 'Sticky' places are urban planning lifelines." One day a picnic table appeared outside Pembroke House, a community space in Walworth, south London. People waiting for events in Pembroke House to start would sit down to wait together.”

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 7, 2022

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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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 19, 2023

It’s good business' " One of the many regrets I have is not getting a PhD in planning. My intended thesis was around urban planning and civic participation and engagement, because local land use issues are the issue most likely to get people involved in local civic affairs, other than having children and being involved in education issues.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

to fix bad practices, make them democratic instead of just eliminating them ," (2012) (also discusses participatory budgeting) Note that the network concept applies to parks and libraries friends groups, and school PTAs as well. She did, for facade improvements in small towns, but didn't extend the concept to planning more generally.

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MARCH 13, 2024

From " Designing urban parks that ameliorate the effects of climate change ," Landscape and Urban Planning : During heat waves now and in the future urban microclimates put human health at risk. Planning at the landscape scale for Sugar House Park: the cultural landscape. Water conservation.

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APRIL 22, 2024

There's an article, " ‘Sticky’ places are urban planning lifelines Shared spaces build community and are key to alleviating America’s loneliness epidemic. They started this as a budget measure in the 1970s (now Harford County, Maryland does something similar too). Designing spaces to foster interaction.

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