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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." The mixed-income development will sit at the heart of a rapidly gentrifying area of D.C. s development team. that has seen average household income nearly double over the last 25 years.

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

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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. Meetingpoint also develops digital communications platforms for organizations, with a focus on civic participation. that do the work.

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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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What’s really happening to the visitor is they’re starting to develop their own curatorial skills,” he says. “If “You go into Artomatic and you say, ‘Oh, I like this, I like this, I don’t like that, I don’t like that, I don’t like that.’ If I go to a gallery or museum, somebody has selected everything for me.

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2023 Year-End Boxscore Charts, Billboard Magazine

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about the importance of CapitalOne Arena on the development of Downtown's East End. Fort Worth Star-Telegram ). 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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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. First, in the early years of the blog I wrote a lot of pieces about transit marketing and doing a better job of it.

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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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Elizabeths campus ," 2018 -- " Part three: the potential for donations around an expanded program ," 2018 -- " Update on DC's plans to build a new United Medical Center ," 2018 I argue that "a building" isn't enough, you have to have a plan to address health inequities in innovative and novel ways. HealthLine in Cleveland.

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Covid-19: Elements of a Scenario

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When it came, in 2009, it was less deadly than expected, but that does not negate the possibility of a highly contagious disease with a case fatality rate equivalent to that of SARS in 2003, namely 10%. It is also important to remember that the Covid-19 pandemic occurs in the context of other developments. Spinney, L.

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