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With the post-covid decline of Downtowns, arts and cultural institutions are affected too

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From the article: Meanwhile, a few hundred feet away, Pioneer Square mainstays Linda Hodges Gallery and the Center on Contemporary Art are celebrating a different milestone: their last First Thursday Art Walk. Hotel Development ," Bisnow), and retail spaces that are getting crushed.

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"Temporary" uses as a way to foil development: Bruce Monroe Elementary School site, DC | from school to park to housing

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s zoning commission approved the development plans in 2017, but soon after, a group of neighbors filed a zoning appeal to contest the approval. I really like how the poster mis-states the original intention for the site, and of course, positions the use as a "giveaway to developers."

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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?

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Louis regional transit planning process as a model for what needs to be done in the DC Metropolitan region " (2009) DC area transit planning and operations is an extreme example of gaps. The concept of a multi-regional and multi-state transit network is outlined in " The meta-regional transit network " (2009).

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

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From the article: The capital improvement program reflects the region’s commitment to maintaining and improving your community’s $100 billion transit asset. My point is you ask for money when you are wildly successful and everyone is looking to join the bandwagon, not when you are failing, in crisis, and you have few friends.

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Linda Lenz, founding editor of Catalyst Chicago, dies at 77 | Technical assistance for local schools advocates

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From the article: a state law decentraliz[ed] the Chicago school system and giving parents and educators the power to review school budgets and hire principals. The same organization that publishes CR published Catalyst , which ceased operation in 2016, after publishing for 26 years. School reform and how can communities respond.

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Florida's Brightline passenger rail as an opportunity to rearticulate and extend transit service in cities like Orlando

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Louis regional transit planning process as a model for what needs to be done in the DC Metropolitan region ," 2009 And some of that seems to be happening, at least with the local commuter line (" Brightline, Orlando and Orange County collaborate on potential convention center rail route ," Orlando Business Journal ).

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The unintended consequences of converting office buildings to housing: the need for public safety; schools; amenities

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Screenshot, Downtown Pittsburgh Partnership marketing campaign, 2009. Unkempt areas aren't places where people want to live (" Updating the post The "soft side" of commercial district revitalization ," 2006/2016). I haven't written about this being discussed in a number of places like DC (" D.C. People don't want to live in fear.