Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 27, 2024

I've written about relocation of DC government agencies over the years as a misguided economic development strategy (" The Reeves Center Myth Revisited ," 2011, " Office Buildings Won't Save Anacostia ," 2005). Especially in secondary and tertiary business districts. It's hard now to seed retail around office development because of this.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

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. I first proposed to the city creating TMDs in 2005/2006. But definitely eater-tainment. They still haven't. I mentioned it over time. EM also closes at 7 pm!

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 18, 2024

Definitely this is another example of DC government's failure to focus and to be innovative. Since 2005 or 2006 I have been recommending that the city create Traffic Management Districts as a way to coordinate transportation management and improvements at the commercial district scale (e.g. must step up on road deaths."

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Public Policy Blog

JANUARY 3, 2014

Prolific proponent of the networked society Manuel Castells (2011) describes mass media being displaced by mass self-communication (Deluca, Lawson, & Sun, 2012) in altering the communication model from one-to-one to many-to-many. Social Media Definitions. In the past there was nowhere for this kind of sentiment to go.

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