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MARCH 15, 2023

. -- " University President Freeman Hrabowski and an agenda for urban universities ," 2021 -- " President of Washington State University dies: fostered development of the "University District" adjacent to Downtown Spokane ," 2015 -- " Universities as elements of urban/downtown revitalization: the Portland State story and more ," 2014 -- " Better2016 (..)

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MARCH 1, 2024

From the article: Surveying the 30-plus public gardens, arboretums, historical landscapes, and support groups that comprise Greater Philadelphia Gardens, consulting firm Econsult Solutions added up the digits and found an economic impact of $256 million a year, a big boon for the tourism industry.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 23, 2023

From the article: Kunkel, director of Temple University’s Sport Industry Research Center , is referring to the economic impact enjoyed by hosts of what’s evolved into a three-day-long basketball bacchanal that briefly transforms the cities it touches, and which happens to be coming to Salt Lake City next month.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Elizabeths campus ," 2018 Controversially, because the Park Service has more golf courses than demand, the Langston Golf Course could be redeveloped. This is worth $20 million per year off football based on a study for the Buffalo Bills, it could be more for other sports because of more events.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

I guess that was an opening salvo for Mayor Bowser, as the Post ran an article today about her wanting to address this (" As D.C.’s Earlier in the week there was a not particularly enlightening oped by former DC Planning Director Andrew Trueblood suggesting a reconsideration of the Height Limit (" A monumentally modest change to D.C.’s

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 30, 2024

In Tampa, the two counties can't figure out how to work together on transit, nor can they build support within their counties ( Voters reject Greenlight Pinellas ," Tampa Bay Times , " My Ride/My Road: Polk County Voters Reject 1-Cent Sales Tax Increase ," Lakeland Ledger, 2014). An article about the aftermath in the Post , " Va.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 4, 2023

The Boston Globe has an interesting article, " Gentrification is washing over America’s wealthiest cities. The article has an interesting discussion about how this came about. Transforming a building. " Now and There " by Faith Ninivaggi , 555 Columbus Avenue, Uphams Corner neighborhood, Boston.

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MARCH 20, 2023

They started planning in 2012, construction in 2014, and opened the first stations in South Florida in 2018. To ride is expensive compared to the regional commuter rail in South Florida and Brightline has had serious problems with crashes with vehicles and pedestrians. Lots of deaths. But it's quite impressive in two ways.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 2, 2022

An article in the Philadelphia Inquire r makes the point that the "fashion" initiative had no legs because of white flight and a change in the industry in terms of fast fashion (" White flight and fast fashion meant Market Street never got the attention it deserved. billion arena in Center City "). Could the 76ers change that? ").

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 19, 2023

That's why I have to laugh at the article in today's Post about USC, " D.C. From the article: District officials have spent months figuring out how to counter negative economic trends spurred by emptied offices downtown. Faculty creating a cluster, having bright children in schools, supporting community institutions, etc.,

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NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Louis article (paragraphs reordered): Every aspect of operations was reexamined with an eye toward keeping passengers safe. After a series of violent crimes, leaders here took decisive action starting in 2018. Liverpool Echo photo. Louis also faced issues with rising crime and declining ridership that predated the pandemic.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 9, 2022

charlie shares with us an article by Edwin Heathcote, the architecture columnist for the Financial Times , " Can a city be redesigned for the new world of work? There is an article about how public schools are weak in customer service (" Survey: Majority of parents say schools’ customer service needs improvement ," K-12 Dive).

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 19, 2024

From another NYT piece, " What We Learned From Bogotá’s Buses ," about the article: That’s a lesson I took away from my reporting. Another DC example is development on the site of the Takoma Metrorail station (" The Takoma Metro Development Proposal and its illustration of gaps in planning and participation processes ," 2014).

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

From the article: Community schools, which, among other things, integrate nonprofits, businesses and colleges on the school site to offer services to students and their families, have existed for more than a century. Students, parents, and teachers participating in a clean up of the school grounds, Wasatch Elementary School, Salt Lake.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MARCH 10, 2023

percent) in 2014, after having been purposefully increased by the FHFA and the two GSEs in prior years. percent range since 2014, rather than being materially lower or higher, does not seem to be well understood in the industry or among policy specialists. percent in 2014 and then stayed in the 0.44 percent to 0.49 percent to 0.49

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