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A follow up on the H Street article: Learning from Philadelphia | More sophisticated daypart, retail, cultural, and experience planning

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The problem is that even though we talk about restaurant or sports events patrons (like attendees of baseball games) also spending money on retail as part of their trips, increasingly people aren't interested in doing so. see It's Hardly Sportin' ). Note that last weekend was Celebrate Petworth, the annual community festival. Why ask why?

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Great News for Chile

Human Transit

When the system was turned on in January 2007, some parts of it hadn’t come together. During my 2019 trip Juan Carlos set up a meeting with then-Minister of Transport & Telecommunications Gloria Hutt to talk about my work on access analysis. Fast forward to 2019. Not enough new buses had arrived.

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WMATA's latest bus improvement program

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

From the presentation (" The Sign Design Society Event: Defining a City ," designworkplan) by Ivan Bennett, Design Manger for London Buses: One reason other systems have failed is the lack of continuity. This has been discussed in depth here, " Will buses ever be cool? Boston versus the Raleigh-Durham's GoTransit Model."

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Metrorail Silver Line phase two opening this week

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Third, was the pro-tunnel effort, which failed, and the desire to have a better connection to the Dulles Airport Terminal, more comparable to National Airport (" Winners and losers with the Dulles subway project ," 2007). But it's really a broader program than could be accomplished in the time frame of constructing the Silver Line.

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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

According to Drug Store News (" CVS Health debuts first Health Hub Location "): During a ribbon-cutting event at the company's HealthHUB location at 687 Johnson Ferry Rd. Medaglia was tasked by its then owner, Ascension Health, with closing or selling it. CVS Health Hub concept. in Marietta, Ga.