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2023 Year-End Boxscore Charts, Billboard Magazine

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Yesterday, my SmartNews feed was on fire, with so many great articles. 1 venue in the world."

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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 ). It's a very important book, about the recentralization of metropolitan areas focused on center city revival. I actually have the original magazine--from an estate sale in Bethesda, found by Suzanne, not me, but it's in DC. Great images.

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Indiana BMV Builds on Three Pillars to Drive up CX

GovLoop

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). ” This article appears in “ Improving Customer Experience: A Nuts-and-Bolts Guide.” Residents will need to find other times and places to work their way through “War and Peace.”

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Interesting study on litter focuses on the brand of the trash

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

And I wrote more pieces over the years. -- " Every litter bit hurts ," 2005 -- " Litter revisited ," 2006 Photo by Inked78. From the article: The community interest company Planet Patrol created an app for people to record the litter they find and remove. One of my earliest blog entries was on litter, as a result of those efforts.

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Desperate times sometimes lead to a more marketing-oriented guise: WMATA/Metrorail | Bonus: WMATA's financial crisis

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Now a goodly amount of that is encapsulated in " Branding's (NOT) all you need for transit " (2018), but old pieces like " Making Transit Sexy " (2005), make the point too, less sophisticatedly. From the article : Metro rides are free after 5 p.m. Tuesday Officials suggest taking Metro to get to the Mall. Starting at 5 p.m.

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Is The Wisdom of Crowds Prone to Exaggeration? Evidence from Metaculus

The Lowe Down

Article by Sambhav Maheshwari and Karan Goel Upon completing this article, you’ll have effortlessly forecasted the future multiple times. The headline alone gave you a rough idea of whether this article will pique your interest.

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I wonder if Mayor Fenty hadn't dissolved the Anacostia Waterfront Initiative in 2007, merging it into another city agency, if development would have happened faster?

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

From the article: Administration officials see the influx of workers as an economic boost and part of a broader effort to scale up critical health infrastructure in a place where life expectancy and health outcomes lag behind neighborhoods to the west. Especially in secondary and tertiary business districts.

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