Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

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 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. Around 2006 it "repaired" Thomas Circle, which decades before had been cut through with more road travel lanes. The city did a plan for the area around 2003. TransMilenio bus routes.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

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First, Virginia's focus on privatization, which is why the Silver Line was not built by Metro (" Silver Line delays: maybe the real lesson is that contracting out construction to the private sector doesn't always work so well ," 2014). Washington Post , July 13, 2003. You don't complain about system problems when it opens, but before.

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