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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. And it has the nonprofit Casey Trees planting trees throughout the city, in public spaces and in conjunction with property owners and utility companies, on private property.

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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

The thing is, cities just don't have the chops to run retail businesses, although granted some public markets in a couple places are run by cities and they aren't absolutely bad (Lancaster Market is run by its city, but with a semi-independent market manager who doesn't treat it as a government job). Anselm's is today. Postcard image.