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Straws and puffery: USC's DC "campus" as a lever for downtown revival

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

In DC, for awhile I was a Main Street manager in the Brookland neighborhood, which is home to Catholic University, Trinity Washington University and near Howard University, and I touted the potential of student spending as an element of commercial district revitalization. 1 in 2021 ," Philadelphia Inquirer ).

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WMATA and MWCOG announce new joint transit initiative | Could a regional "transport association" be on the horizon, or just a transit bailout?

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

My mobility shed/mobilityshed and transit shed entry dates to 2006, " Updating the mobilityshed / mobility shed concept." A variant is that starting in 2006 I also wrote that the area's railroad passenger services should integrate into what I later called RACER, Railroad Authority of the Chesapeake Region.

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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

The paper " Evaluating the economics of park-tourism from the ground-up: Leakage, multiplier effects, and the enabling environment at South Luangwa National Park, Zambia " Ecological Economics , 2021, argues that simple surveys can collect this type of information. Part 1: Overview and Theoretical Foundations ," 2021 -- " St.

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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

. -- " Yard sign, Person running for District Six Council in Salt Lake using traffic safety as a campaign issue ," 2023 Transportation management districts. How to measure and benchmark traffic deaths? The issues are unchanging. Government has a bias for inaction. Planning for mode versus planning for place and livability.