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February is African-American History Month: Urban planning history -- the attempt to make Roxbury a separate city from Boston

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

They wanted to control development. More recently, in Greater Atlanta, there has been a "create your own city" movement to separate blacks and whites, by selectively incorporating county lands (" The Incorporation of New Cities Has Increased Racial Segregation in Metro Atlanta ," JCHS, " Suburbs, Inc.:

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Urban planning when things are going well: DC, 2014 (The Office of Planning under Harriet Tregoning)

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Note that I like Harriet Tregoning a lot, and I love to talk about planning with her, but at the same time I try to be objective and analytical. Planning as boundary spanning and serving multiple masters. The result is policy and planning principles that will inform development, creating design that fits the character of the community.

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Citi Logik helps governments drive action on transportation insights with AWS

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Citi Logik provides their customers, including the West Yorkshire Combined Authority and Wiltshire County Council, with valuable insights to help them make informed decisions about future transportation planning and urban planning development. They analyse over 150 million journeys in the UK every single day using MND.

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The call of sprawl: Salt Lake Bees minor league baseball team to move to the suburbs

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

I wrote about it here: -- " Framework of characteristics that support successful community development in association with the development of professional sports facilities " (2021) in the process, updating my evaluative framework for siting and building arenas and stadiums. deal for Larry H. The team as an activation device is key.

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Proposal to build new basketball arena in Downtown Philadelphia

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

More importantly, it will test whether the city really can provide the infrastructure, investment, and urban planning solutions necessary for Center City to realize its full potential. I do believe that basketball and hockey arenas should be located downtown and that they can contribute positively to economic development.

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

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Main Street commercial district revitalization practice grew out of HP and a desire to save "old buildings" in the face of the development of shopping centers, chain retail, and broken microeconomies. Very soon into my writing, before the blog, a bunch of DC cultural institutions failed, so this became an ongoing topic.

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Women's History Month and urban planning

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

One of the special interest sections of the American Planning Association is Planning and Women and the Women's Transportation Seminar is a professional development organization for women working in the transportation field. Women and the history of the planning profession. For the most part, links have not been checked.