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Germantown neighborhood of Philadelphia is finally improving

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The article online has the title " Rise in residential development in Germantown sparks optimism — and caution ," WHYY/NPR). My 2003 op-ed in the Philadelphia Daily News was partially inspired by a super cool club-restaurant-performance space in an old Woolworth's (long since closed) in Germantown. Photo: Kimberly Paynter, WHYY/NPR.

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Prince George's County Film Festival: developing an ecosystem supporting digital media production

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The first film to represent Prince George’s that came to mind for her was a 2020 documentary about the county’s long list of accomplished basketball players. 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.

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Louisville Courier-Journal mobile newsroom initiative and Salt Lake Tribune Innovations Lab

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

As part of this program, they're spending three weeks basing their "mobile newsroom" in a library in the Okolona district in the outlying county section of Louisville-Jefferson County (the city and county merged in 2003). From " Why The Courier Journal is bringing its newsroom to your neighborhood ": Here’s the truth.

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A follow up on the H Street article: Learning from Philadelphia | More sophisticated daypart, retail, cultural, and experience planning

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

It might be that more neighborhood embedded districts, like Eastern Market (" Eastern Market DC's 150th anniversary last weekend | And my never realized master plan for the market ") or H Street have a better shot at developing the retail offer. Retail store development. But it has to be very focused.

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Car Prices have been Speeding Upwards. Could “Corporate Greed” be at Fault?

The Lowe Down

According to Edmunds, less than 1% of consumers paid above sticker price for their cars in January 2020, and about 3% of consumers did so in January 2021. To analyze this claim, we can look at the variables that determined car prices in the pre-pandemic economy and develop a linear model.

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Covid-19: Elements of a Scenario

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

In 2020, some confusion arises from the fact that much of the planning refers to influenza, whereas the SARS category of diseases is not strictly a 'flu virus, but most of the planning principles are exactly the same, so this is mainly a labelling issue. In some quarters, it had an immediate effect (e.g., McCaw 2007. Spinney, L.

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H Street NE nightlife district, failing?

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

And probably the death of Joe Englert, the impresario who helped develop many of the early establishments on the corridor, many with particularly interesting and creative business models, hasn't helped. My overall take is that revitalization and commercial district success requires constant, ongoing management.

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