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

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

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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Future of Government Awards 2023 celebrate use of technology to transform people’s lives

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A core focus of the Future of Government Awards is the importance of open source,” said Joe Hooper, director of the UNDP Global Centre for Technology, Innovation, and Sustainable Development. Released in 2019, GOV.BR Making solutions available for other governments to adapt and adopt can accelerate digital transformation.

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Regional and multi-state inter city bus transportation. Thanksgiving is a time of big travel.

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Note in my typology on the transit network at multiple scales (" Reprint (with editing): The Meta-Regional Transit Network ," 2009), a commenter had to point out to me that I failed to include buses. This was in the Thanksgiving entry, but should be separated out. = What to do about bus rider customer experience.

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Google Public Sector announces Board of Directors

Google Public Sector

Governor Steve Bullock An accomplished lawyer, Steve Bullock served the State of Montana as Attorney General from 2009 to 2013, and as Governor from 2013 to 2021. Army Medical Command from 2015 to 2019, where, among other duties, she provided advice and guidance to the Army Chief of Staff on all Army healthcare matters.

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How will low-code tech shape the future?

Open Access Government - Technology News

Latest ONS figures show that the UK’s output per hour growth between 20092019 was the second lowest of the G7 countries. One study of companies that used low-code development found that it increased digital innovation by 66%, boosted responsiveness, and reduced the need to hire full-time technical staff.

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Relearning old lessons: Urban economics, agglomeration economies, and adaptive reuse of "a large stock of old buildings"

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Agglomeration economies and the biotech cluster in Cambridge Massachusetts.The Globe article explains why I am such a proponent of face to face, cluster development and agglomeration economies. Attendance at Thursday night programs and networking events at Venture Care have drawn an average of 419 people this fall, up from353 in 2019.

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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

It might be that more neighborhood embedded districts, like Eastern Market (" Eastern Market DC's 150th anniversary last weekend | And my never realized master plan for the market ") or H Street have a better shot at developing the retail offer. Retail store development. But it has to be very focused.

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