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. Action News has been going through some of the new data and found that foot traffic in the heart of Center City reached 83% of 2019 levels, while residents reached 126%.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

I was reading an article about a failed shopping mall, and caught this at the end of the article: MEET THE EDITORS NIGHT IN OKOLONA Courier Journal reporters are working from the South Central Regional Library weekdays in September as part of its mobile newsroom. Everyone doesn’t have the same access to The Courier Journal.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 19, 2022

This Seattle Times article, " Is West Seattle the rock ’n’ roll capital of Seattle? ," illustrates those ideas--record stores, clubs, artists living there, record labels, the KEXP-FM rock radio station, practice spaces, recording studios, music education programs in Seattle Public Schools, etc., Kylie Cooper / The Seattle Times).

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NOVEMBER 20, 2023

The Washington Post has an article, " H Street was once a symbol of D.C.’s That being said, a Reddit entry in response to the article makes some excellent points that I wouldn't necessarily have come up with, not being there any more. As Project for Public Spaces says, you need multiple attractions.

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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. Attendance at Thursday night programs and networking events at Venture Care have drawn an average of 419 people this fall, up from353 in 2019.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Since 2003, when I was on the board of H Street Main Street, and advocating that the group create a housing growth strategy in its retail trade area, I suggested that the RFK parking lots, especially along Benning Road, should be converted to housing and mixed use development.

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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. The city did a plan for the area around 2003. TransMilenio bus routes. Photo by Julio Plaza for the New York Times. We live in divided, short-sighted times. They don’t conform to election cycles.

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