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WMATA is pathetic: of course it belongs to "the public"

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

In the near term, we are supporting returning customers with more rapid social media engagement, and extended customer service hours Monday through Friday 7 a.m. and Saturday and Sunday 8 a.m. For frequent, new and visiting customers, we are piloting new signage, beginning with putting service information at street level at Metro Center.

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Revisiting the 11th Street Bridge Park project as an opportunity rather than a folly: a new revitalization agenda for East of the River, DC

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Maybe the National Park Service Urban Agenda: A call to action initiative (2015) can help facilitate this, but I am not holding my breath. The award-winning orchid curtain in the Exhibition Hall at Longwood Gardens' 2015 Orchid Extravaganza. Another link. Organizing around the water is too limited given the issues.

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Gaps in Parks Master Planning, Part Six | Art(s) in the Park(s) as a comprehensive program

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Mexico border between 1993 and 2006. Anti-Semitic vandalism on Anish Kapoor’s Dirty Corner, Versailles, France, 2015. While below I offer a more comprehensive listing of disciplines, the format of this chart, which doesn't just list the disciplines, but also the senses that are engaged by each, is quite interesting.

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Gaps in Parks Master Planning, Part Six | Art(s) in the Park(s) as a comprehensive program

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Mexico border between 1993 and 2006. Anti-Semitic vandalism on Anish Kapoor’s Dirty Corner, Versailles, France, 2015. While below I offer a more comprehensive listing of disciplines, the format of this chart, which doesn't just list the disciplines, but also the senses that are engaged by each, is quite interesting.

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The Road Not Taken | a response to a letter to the editor in the Washington Post about DC, traffic deaths and traffic safety

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Years ago I wrote a piece (" Outline for a proposed Ward-focused (DC) Councilmember campaign platform and agenda ," 2015) about what would be an ideal approach to a truly ward-focused Councilmember election and governance platform, including having a dashboard on ward-specific data on traffic safety. Ward focused traffic safety programming.