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DC Artomatic is a big arts exhibition: but not oriented to building the arts and culture ecosystem long term

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And while it's very important to focus on building the community of artists, at the sa.me But it doesn't have the kind of impact it could, were it to have a different organizational focus.

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2023 Year-End Boxscore Charts, Billboard Magazine

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Yesterday, my SmartNews feed was on fire, with so many great articles. 1 venue in the world." I argued it would have happened anyway. said "no, the Arena has had significant impact." The reality is that he was right (" More sports: sports-anchored entertainment districts and LA Live." I was too parochial.

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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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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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Prince George's County Film Festival: developing an ecosystem supporting digital media production

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From the article: Prince George’s County didn’t feel like a place to make movies when actress Kike Ayodeji grew up. As pointed out in the Post article, if you want to develop a functioning if not thriving film community, you need to support its development, and a film festival is an element that does. I think it's a great idea.

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

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Now a goodly amount of that is encapsulated in " Branding's (NOT) all you need for transit " (2018), but old pieces like " Making Transit Sexy " (2005), make the point too, less sophisticatedly. From the article : Metro rides are free after 5 p.m. Tuesday Officials suggest taking Metro to get to the Mall. Starting at 5 p.m.

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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

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. -- " Ordinary versus Extraordinary Planning around the rebuilding of the United Medical Center in Southeast Washington DC | Part One: Rearticulating the system of health and wellness care East of the River ," 2018 -- " Part Two: Creating a graduate health and biotechnology research initiative on the St. Plan + program + building.

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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).