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Parking space requirements, car versus moped, Harmon's Supermarket Brickyard, Salt Lake City

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

But Donald Shoup's High Cost of Free Parking was published in 2005. Seattle eliminated parking minimums in its Downtown in the late 1980s, and extended this concept to transit station areas and neighborhood commercial districts around 2006. DC's historic districts have an exception to parking minimums.

2006 52
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Pam Bridgeforth of Camden Repertory Theatre talks about building community

Iron Sharpens Iron

Pam Bridgeforth is Managing Director of Camden Repertory Theatre and former Director of Programs for the Philadelphia Association of Community Development Corporations. Shelton, a Camden, NJ native, in 2005 and initiated their inaugural season in August 2006. About Camden Repertory Theatre. Camden Rep was founded by Desi P.

2006 52
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Pam Bridgeforth of Camden Repertory Theatre talks about building community

Iron Sharpens Iron

Pam Bridgeforth is Managing Director of Camden Repertory Theatre and former Director of Programs for the Philadelphia Association of Community Development Corporations. Shelton, a Camden, NJ native, in 2005 and initiated their inaugural season in August 2006. About Camden Repertory Theatre Camden Rep was founded by Desi P.

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State of the Nation - a UK Perspective on Covid-19

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

There were major exercises on pandemics in 2005, 2007 and 2016. Plans were made in the UK in 2006, 2008, 2011 and 2014. The last two of these were either not developed enough or were allowed to lapse. The problem has been the abyss between planning, preparedness and practice. The plans were not connected to anything.

2008 52
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WMATA is pathetic: of course it belongs to "the public"

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

In college in the early 1980s, the University of Michigan repositioned its focus on fundraising (what universities call "development") in part by hiring a top development official from Stanford, creating a new campaign, etc.--the the University has successful raised billions since. It begins with “What do we want Metro to be?”

2009 52
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Eastern Market DC's 150th anniversary last weekend | And my never realized master plan for the market

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

In 2005, I served on the advisory committee for the International Public Markets Conference which covered both DC and Baltimore that year, led a tour, etc. In 2009, I was appointed to serve on the Community Advisory Committee, representing the Eastern Market Preservation and Development Corporation. They still haven't.

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Metrorail Silver Line phase two opening this week

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

There would be plenty of benefits for DC, discussed here, "" If DC had visionary elected officials and planners it could use the new WMATA "BOS" study to push through the development of a separated Silver Line in DC (and Northern Virginia) ," 2019). This should have been done as part of BRAC planning, something I first suggested in 2005.)