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Community building versus economic development

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The other element that was educational for me was the velocity of change resulting from the new station. Plus the economic impact on the other four areas, totaling in the billions of new construction. Velocity of positive economic change from public investment. Granted a lot of development was going on in DC at the time.

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Announcing customer and guest speakers for Max Peterson’s Leadership Session at re:Invent 2022

AWS Public Sector Blog

Dr. Whitson, former chief astronaut at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), completed her first mission to space in 2002—with an extended stay aboard the International Space Station. She also served as the first female chief of the NASA Astronaut Office at the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston from 2009 to 2012.

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The unintended consequences of converting office buildings to housing: the need for public safety; schools; amenities

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Screenshot, Downtown Pittsburgh Partnership marketing campaign, 2009. It had been happening for decades (" Having a Longer View on Downtown Living ," Eugenie Birch, University of Pennsylvania, 2002; Get Urban!: I haven't written about this being discussed in a number of places like DC (" D.C. sustainable mobility.

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The Social Media President – @POTUS final #SOTU

Public Policy Blog

Bush administration in 2002. including the First Lady, the Vice President, Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz, Acting Secretary of Education John King and the interweb’s favorite man next door Twitter user, Cory Booker (social justice). First president to deliver the speech in primetime was Lyndon Johnson in 1965. Bush in 2004.