Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
From the article: Philadelphia ranks fourth in the country in the average daily number of pedestrians downtown -- behind New York City, Chicago and Boston. I suggested something like this to the DC Main Street program in 2003, but it was too ambitious for them to understand.) Retail store development.
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
NOVEMBER 26, 2023
Agglomeration economies and the biotech cluster in Cambridge Massachusetts.The Globe article explains why I am such a proponent of face to face, cluster development and agglomeration economies. Characteristics of cultural quarters From Montgomery (2003). Like "bump factor" instead of "agglomeration economies." Stable arts funding.
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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
SEPTEMBER 23, 2022
From the article: Prince George’s County didn’t feel like a place to make movies when actress Kike Ayodeji grew up. As pointed out in the Post article, if you want to develop a functioning if not thriving film community, you need to support its development, and a film festival is an element that does. I think it's a great idea.
Disaster Planning and Emergency Management
FEBRUARY 8, 2023
A short bibliography of sources that deal with common faults in Turkish R/C construction is appended at the end of this article. Mosalam 2003. An experienced civil engineer could evaluate some of that by eye, but much of the rest is hidden and only exposed once the building collapses. Environmental Geology 57: 307-320. Ozmen, H.B.
The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)
MARCH 11, 2024
The core thesis of this two-part article is that the congressional design of GSEs has a fundamental flaw: that subsidies and privileges given to a GSE will inevitably, over time, drift to being used unduly to produce stand-alone profit to benefit their owners and executives, and too little to support its intended mission.
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
FEBRUARY 6, 2023
I noticed an article that Baltimore County, Maryland is on the verge of passing a plastic bag ban. DC did that in 2009. There is an article from Fox45 in Baltimore that states: " Law enforcement expert says liquor stores are hotspots for crime in Baltimore City." increase in violent crimes. In the early 2000s!
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
MARCH 21, 2024
The article " Philadelphia’s Market Street East searches for growth and renewal — with or without a new Sixers arena ," has an interesting section on a community meeting where people who weren't into the arena concept suggested alternatives. They don't want an arena, they want green roofs.
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