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Desperate times sometimes lead to a more marketing-oriented guise: WMATA/Metrorail | Bonus: WMATA's financial crisis

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Second, during the 2008 crash, I got an email from an activist in response to all the budget and service cuts faced by transit systems. Transit financing My solution: Step 1: creating a regional transport association. It's probably too little too late. And absolutely that it is a key issue. Step 2: Separate planning from budgeting.

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What should the program for a Transportation Management District look like?

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Transportation Demand Management programming The reality is, especially in a place like Salt Lake, most people drive. The idea is that intra-district transportation, especially by SFH residents, could be shifted to shuttles rather than by car. Go to the grocery store, bring back your purchases, without driving.

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Towards a Taxonomy of Disasters

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

The study of disasters is a 'lateral discipline' that, to varying degrees embraces at least 42 other disciplines and professions (Alexander 2013). Tierney (2008) provided a functional semantic classification of the size of extreme events (revised by Alexander 2016, p. ) Alexander, D. Disaster Prevention and Management 11(3): 209-213.

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Walmart to close one of its three DC stores

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

During the period of the (post) 2008 recession, Walmart, recognizing that it achieved about as much growth as it could in the suburbs and exurbs, decided to focus on cities. 4, Will Employ 600 People ," WAMU/NPR, 2013): Georgia Avenue NW Fort Totten NE 50 New Jersey Avenue NW The store on New York Avenue never came to be. To Open Dec.

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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 suggested many things over the years including: -- creating a transportation management district for the Capitol Hill area, serving Eastern Market. This was proposed a number of years ago for EM, first in the Barry Administration and then around 2012-2013, but the vendors fought it, with the support of now Mayor Muriel Bowser.

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Missing obvious opportunities to strengthen rail-based transit systems: Philadelphia Navy Yard and improvements to the transit "network"/platform

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The project took six years to complete, and the station opened in 2012, with full service in 2013. And as one of the early citizen directors of BART, the Bay Area Rapid Transit system, used to say about planning for transit expansion--don't put it off, because construction costs only go up. Conclusion. It's been 26 years.

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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

Nina Berman , Homeland Security Advisory Billboard, Country Club Hills, IL, 2008, from the Homeland series. Tri-Met sort of did that, as two stations Exposition (Japanese internment) and X (where the Kaiser flood killed dozens of people) serve areas where controversy occurred. Exhibit: The Landscape Architecture Legacy of Dan Kiley.