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Arbor Day: Street Trees of Seattle by Taha Ebrahimi | Trees as Cultural Landscape (at the community scale)

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

For example, one tree she learned about was planted as a barter between a family that helped a poorer one heat their house in a particularly cold winter. which describes a community trying to save a noteworthy tree from being torn down by a developer. The helped family planted a special tree in the neighbor's planting strip.

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Eastern Market DC's 150th anniversary last weekend | And my never realized master plan for the market

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

In 2005, I served on the advisory committee for the International Public Markets Conference which covered both DC and Baltimore that year, led a tour, etc. In 2009, I was appointed to serve on the Community Advisory Committee, representing the Eastern Market Preservation and Development Corporation. Using the Main Street Approach.