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A unified National Park Service Visitor Center for DC (and the region)

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

According to this past blog entry from 2006, " Baltimore City Visitor Center has enviable financial return ," the economic return from the Baltimore center was over $3.5 Baltimore, independent of the Heritage Area, has a nice visitor center on the Inner Harbor. DC just doesn't come anywhere near having such an equivalent.

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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

. -- " Health planning vs. hospital planning redux ," 2006 -- " Piling on the hospital issue ," 2006 -- " An opportunity for rethinking health and wellness care in the District of Columbia ," 2006 -- " Speaking of rethinking how to offer "public services" and medical care ," 2007 -- " Community Health Improvement Planning ," 2019 -- " A glaring illustration (..)

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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

1) neighborhood/district/city/county wide as part of a master plan; (2) within functional elements of a master plan such as transportation, housing, or economic development; and (3) within a specific project (e.g., Around 2006 it "repaired" Thomas Circle, which decades before had been cut through with more road travel lanes.

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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 student asked me about the equitable development plan , which I wasn't involved in developing It has a bunch of points. Like Tower Hamlets' IdeaStores (" Neighborhood libraries as nodes in a neighborhood and city-wide network of cultural assets ," 2019), it should have been placed in the commercial district.