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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

I stepped down when we moved to Salt Lake in late 2019, although I thought at the time somehow I'd be maintaining residences in both places. I first proposed to the city creating TMDs in 2005/2006. Master Plan contract, 2019. We did this in 2008 or 2009. They still haven't. I mentioned it over time.

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Hospitals as urban anchors/revitalization levers, not usually, but with great potential to serve communities in important ways: Examples are two forthcoming projects by Intermountain Health and University of Utah Health

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Relatedly, in 2008, Saffron wrote that the city's newest hospital building was designed for the suburbs, not the city (" Penn got a trophy, not a triumph, in hospital design "). Inga Saffron of the Philadelphia Inquirer makes the point that because hospital planning is in large part focused on accommodating cars in parking, etc.,

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Updating the best practice elements of revitalization to include elements 7 and 8 | Transformational Projects Action Planning at a large scale

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Around 2006 it "repaired" Thomas Circle, which decades before had been cut through with more road travel lanes. I will say that adaptive management is a lot like my old "Action Planning" approach, which uses the design method, and dates back to 2008 and observation of best practice then. Transformational Projects Action Planning.