Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 25, 2024

I haven't figured out how to write it up, but Salt Lake City and County have invested in a lot of social infrastructure like libraries and recreation centers on the west side, but they haven't been developed in a manner that promotes the development of centers. This is true everywhere, not just in Philadelphia.

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Open Space Radio: Parks and Recreation Trends

OCTOBER 29, 2020

On this bonus episode of the podcast, we’re going to be diving deeper into one of the feature stories from the November issue of Parks & Recreation magazine, titled, “A New Approach to Parks and Recreation System Planning.” David Barth is no stranger to park and recreation planning.

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Open Space Radio: Parks and Recreation Trends

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

As a native Washingtonian, a park and rec kid, and a long history of serving the community, Delano Hunter is well suited for the role of director of D.C. Department of Parks and Recreation (DCDPR). government agency dedicated to promoting service as an innovative, sustainable solution to pressing social challenges.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 22, 2024

Public facing civic assets--libraries, parks, schools, sustainable mobility programs like walking, biking, and transit, Safe Routes to School, public markets, farmers markets, etc. It's an interesting book.

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Open Space Radio: Parks and Recreation Trends

JANUARY 23, 2020

The February issue of Parks & Recreation magazine is out now, and we recently had the opportunity to chat with Jamie Sabbach about her article, “ Leading With Courage ,” for this month’s bonus episode. We also chat about why good leadership is essential to the smart growth and sustainability of a park and recreation agency.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 13, 2024

Parks with extraordinary environmental features face big losses in the face of sustained heat. national parks are trying to go carbon-free. national parks are trying to go carbon-free. What does that mean for visitors? ," National Geographic -- " What to Save?

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Center for Community Progress

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

In their previous role at the West Virginia Community Development Hub, Bennett worked as the primary statewide convener and advocate for land bank-based policies. To account for these limitations, we’re seeing land banks step in as the property developer. Bennett has served as the Executive Director of WVLSC since 2021.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JULY 17, 2024

A big point I make with bicycling is that given the automobile dependency that's been fostered on the US given the predominate land use and transportation development paradigm, is that people have to be assisted in making the shift from driving to mostly bicycling. Creating "sustainable mobility stores." Mass/Place/District 1.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 7, 2022

sustainable mobility. Parks, recreation centers, libraries. Usually cities have parks and libraries in the core. Not usually recreation and community centers. This reminds me that when Toronto did an urban grayfield development project in the 1970s, creating the St. People don't want to live in fear.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 26, 2024

For example the Salt Lake City park master plan, ReImagine Nature , does discuss programming and activation. Still, a majority of parks master plans don't address these items in a systematic enough way. The park allows all community members to enjoy the space simultaneously. Not so much public art. Seasonality.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 12, 2022

The upheaval in the planning agency’s governance has shocked even longtime political observers in a county accustomed to intense development spats. Casey Anderson, chair of the Montgomery County Planning Board, in Forest Grove Park in Silver Spring in 2018. has 421 parks. John Kelly/The Washington Post) I'm saddened by this.

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Social Pinpoint

APRIL 16, 2024

Here’s our round-up of five placemaking community engagement examples to draw some inspiration from: Informing Residents of New Precincts in a City Centre Neighbourhood Activity Centre Long-Term Frameworks Community’s collective vision Enhancements for a Park City of Kalgoorlie Boulder | Kal City Centre 1.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

The advantage of promoting biking to college students is that they are "impressionable" and it's a good time to develop sustainable behaviors as routine (" College towns of a certain size as an opportunity for sustainable mobility nirvana ," 2018). Scooter parking at Bonneville Elementary School in Salt Lake City.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 19, 2023

I think that parks, libraries, sustainable mobility programs, and other civic assets are potential touchpoints for civic engagement and participation. But parks agencies and libraries aren't set up to do this purposively. And they don't acknowledge civic engagement as an important element of parks practice in their master plans.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Private equity doesn't do stuff "out of goodness" but to make a profit, and quickly--often much faster than it is possible for a developing business to do. Private equity doesn't do stuff "out of goodness" but to make a profit, and quickly--often much faster than it is possible for a developing business to do. Isla Vista, California.

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Center for Community Progress

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Greening programs support the systematic upkeep of vacant lots and may include activities such as obtaining professional mowing services or engaging residents to purchase and maintain side lots, mow community lots, plant gardens, or create pocket parks. It has been lightly edited and condensed for the web. In this chapter, Laney A.

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PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

"Now integrated into its seventh consecutive year of budget development, PBB is the framework within which all budget decisions are made." 2017 PBB Outcomes Now integrated into its seventh consecutive year of budget development, PBB is the framework within which all budget decisions are made.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 19, 2024

A commitment to the development and production of a broad, comprehensive, visionary, and detailed revitalization plan/s (Bilbao, Hamburg, Liverpool); the creation of innovative and successful implementation organizations , with representatives from the public sector and private firms, to carry out the program. TransMilenio bus routes.

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The City Fix

DECEMBER 6, 2023

In the Seychelles archipelago in East Africa, flooding and erosion caused by rising sea levels pose an imminent threat to the country’s many low-lying islands. At the same time its mangrove forests, which serve as a vital buffer against these.

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The City Fix

JULY 26, 2023

Climate change is impacting cities and their residents in many profound ways, from poor air quality to flooding to biodiversity loss and extreme heat. Now, with the help of a new tool, select cities can access localized, integrated data to.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

This entry became very long, so I broke it up. This entry became very long, so I broke it up. There are plenty of posts I don't remember writing!) Arts-based revitalization A focus on arts-based revitalization grew out of my interest in historic preservation "as a cultural resource," as one cultural element of many in a community.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 14, 2022

It discusses transportation in terms of the Walking City, Transit (Streetcar) City, Recreational Auto, and Metropolitan City eras and how transportation and land use have been organized in those periods. It's an important book for both land use and transit. This is the basis of the concept of "transportation demand management." Book chapter.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 2, 2022

Suzanne was in Portland last week, and one of the places she stayed had a copy of Portland Monthly from last year, with an article about on " Portland Neighborhoods by the Numbers 2021: Nearly every part of town saw an increase in the median sales price last year." Housing Market Needs 5.5 We are seeing that. Amenities as a factor in housing choice.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

The URL is long because at the time I didn't appreciate the need for brevity. I have over 12,000 entries. While many are photos, and some are reprints, the fact is that the ouevre is a few million words in all likelihood. While many are photos, and some are reprints, the fact is that the ouevre is a few million words in all likelihood. And images.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 4, 2024

Art has shaped our perception of landscapes, parks, and other public spaces for 200+ years in the United States alone, and longer in Europe (" ‘Nature’s Nation’: How American art shaped our environmental perspectives ," Princeton University Art Museum). Gene Harris Bandshell (amphitheater), Julia Davis Park, Boise, Idaho.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

My work in Baltimore County also led to the development of my "Signature Streets" concept, as a way of unifying thinking about streets, mobility, and aesthetics, not just in counties but in cities too. By focusing on key concepts that "I've developed" here's a list. I have more than 1,000 entries on this topic.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 5, 2024

Art has shaped our perception of landscapes, parks, and other public spaces for 200+ years in the United States alone, and longer in Europe (" ‘Nature’s Nation’: How American art shaped our environmental perspectives ," Princeton University Art Museum). Gene Harris Bandshell (amphitheater), Julia Davis Park, Boise, Idaho.

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