Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 9, 2024

I am on the board of Sugar House Park, which is owned by both the city and county, so it has some interesting intergovernmental issues. My background in planning, including parks planning, provides a knowledge base they didn't have access to before. Still, there is tension between being more active or more passive.

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Barrett & Greene

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

For example, using the new GPAL tools, decision-makers could explore resident perceptions about traffic and how they relate to mobility and law enforcement metrics or the ways in which parks and recreation opportunities affect community health outcomes.

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Center for Community Progress

MARCH 16, 2023

Like in many states, a mix of ineffective laws, partisan divisions, and the allure of maintaining the status quo made reforming this local process difficult. I had a front-row seat into the harms of auctioning off tax-foreclosed properties , particularly low-value residential properties, but thought, what could be done? I wondered.

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Government Technology Insider

JULY 9, 2024

With so many facilities under their purview–from courthouses and law enforcement/public safety facilities to waste removal, water service and tax collection, from libraries and parks and recreation to behavioral health and child welfare services, and so much more–the breadth of services and end-user needs can feel overwhelming.

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Open Space Radio: Parks and Recreation Trends

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

A topic as complex as drones in parks couldn’t be covered in just one episode, so we we’re launching a three-part series to tackle this topic by interviewing experts in the field with three different perspectives. Ways Park Managers Are Handling Drones Part 3. Policy, Drone Zones and Resources for Land Managers Part 2.

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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!) I got tired of reading over and over of the displacement of arts groups and the like.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

This is a great explication of the network concept applied to biking. From the c. 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. I have more than 1,000 entries on this topic.

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Center for Community Progress

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Each year, Community Progress welcomes grassroots community leaders to our Community Revitalization Fellowship (CRF) program, where they collectively learn how to help their neighborhoods tackle vacancy, abandonment, and disinvestment. It is there that we create, encourage other artists, and are able to make a living from our work.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

. -- Last year's blog entry Entrance to national parks is free. Many parks, at all levels: national; state; and local, have events. Interesting that the federal government is on the verge of shutting down (" US government shutdown: What is it and who would be affected? ," Reuters), which means that parks and open lands close too.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

It's not just in support of "national" public lands managed by various federal agencies (National Park Service, Bureau of Land Management, USDA Forest Service, US Fish and Wildlife Service, Bureau of Reclamation), but is supposed to encourage recognition of public lands of all types. Videos/Television. Last year's entry lists these issues.

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