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Downtown St. Paul needs 20,000 more people to thrive | implications for urban revitalization in the post covid city

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Note that before the book, there was an article in Fortune Magazine , " Downtown is for people " ( pdf ). I actually have the original magazine--from an estate sale in Bethesda, found by Suzanne, not me, but it's in DC. Also see " What would be a "Transformational Projects Action Plan" for DC's cultural ecosystem ," 2019.

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Indiana BMV Builds on Three Pillars to Drive up CX

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When Mitch Daniels took office as Indiana’s Governor in 2005, one of the top items on his agenda was reforming the Bureau of Motor Vehicles (BMV). In 2019, the average visit time was 13 minutes, 4 seconds. At the time, the average visit to a BMV office lasted 30 minutes, but Daniels knew that it often took (and felt) much longer. “I

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Gaps in Parks Master Planning: Part Five | Planning for Public Art as an element of facilities

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

High Trestle Bridge on the Trestle Trail at night, Iowa " Kehinde Wiley's Anti-Confederate Memorial ," New Yorker Magazine permanently installed at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond An advantage of ephemerality is that after awhile, patrons may take permanent pieces for granted and pay less attention.