Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 7, 2024

One of my complaints in urban revitalization is that the average city, including DC, treats any new economic activity as "economic development," and all economic development is positive, when some activities are "better" than others in terms of income, tax revenues, spillover development, the economic multiplier effect, and how much of the money recirculates locally versus is siphoned off to headquarters cities.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 7, 2024

When I was in college, a lot of people criticized activists over "not having solutions" when they articulated problems. For decades, I've believed that identifying problems is a worthy skill, even if you don't have "the" answer--especially because many people who think they have "the answer" don't, they have an answer to one eensy element of the whole problem.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 7, 2024

In writings on developing a city visitor network (" National Tourism and Travel Week 2019: DC recap | DC needs a tourism development and management plan "), including comments on the DC Federal Elements Comprehensive Plan on Visitor Services, I suggested that there should be a unified NPS visitor center for the region (" World Tourism Day: In terms of providing great visitor services, is DC being a highly visited tourism destination a good or a bad thing?

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