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Metrorail Silver Line phase two opening this week

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Fifth, that activists and elected officials sure didn't understand how to be proactive (" The Silver Line WMATA story that WJLA-TV missed ," 2014). This should have been done as part of BRAC planning, something I first suggested in 2005.) More network improvements. Extending the Yellow Line south on Rte.

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Crain's Chicago Business: Crain's Forum on Rebranding Chicago

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

One of my earliest pieces " Town-City branding or "We are all destination managers now" " (2005) was later expanded into the concept of a city's elected officials and stakeholders are its brand managers in commercial district revitalization framework plans I wrote in 2008 for Cambridge, Maryland, and Brunswick, Georgia.

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Transit as a formula for local economic success and improvements in regional quality of life

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

It's fair to say that in NYC Mayor De Blasio cares a lot less about this than former Mayor Bloomberg (" A Playbook on the Politics of Better Streets ," Bloomberg), and in DC, most elected officials are from "the outer city" where the automobile remains dominant (" DC as a suburban agenda dominated city ," 2013).