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I wonder if Mayor Fenty hadn't dissolved the Anacostia Waterfront Initiative in 2007, merging it into another city agency, if development would have happened faster?

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From the article: Administration officials see the influx of workers as an economic boost and part of a broader effort to scale up critical health infrastructure in a place where life expectancy and health outcomes lag behind neighborhoods to the west.

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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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From the article: In a news release sent out Wednesday, officials said that the organizations’ Boards of Directors will meet on May 1 to start “months-long discussions about how to efficiently provide, fund, and govern public transit.” inter-city) transit planning ," 2011). This concept eludes almost everyone who writes about transit.

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

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From the article: The past few months have been tough for many passengers using bus stations and curbside spots across the country. I have written about this from time to time, including problems with the set up at DC's Union Station, by comparing it to Toronto and Montreal (" Union Station bus terminal, DC ," 2011).

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Revisiting the Community Land Trust: An Academic Literature Review

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A list of the full citations of the articles referenced can be found at the end of this post. Meehan, 2014). One-time investments in CLT properties can keep those properties affordable as long as the CLT exists, ensuring affordability for far longer (Institute for Community Economics 1982, Jacobus and Brown 2010, White 2011).

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Arts as production: The rock music ecosystem in West Seattle

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This Seattle Times article, " Is West Seattle the rock ’n’ roll capital of Seattle? ," illustrates those ideas--record stores, clubs, artists living there, record labels, the KEXP-FM rock radio station, practice spaces, recording studios, music education programs in Seattle Public Schools, etc., Kylie Cooper / The Seattle Times).

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Revisiting the 11th Street Bridge Park project as an opportunity rather than a folly: a new revitalization agenda for East of the River, DC

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But even before that I went back and forth on it. The student asked me about the equitable development plan , which I wasn't involved in developing It has a bunch of points. Ephemeral sculpture public art projects, the kinds of landscape initiatives in Montreal, the creative public space approaches of Claude Cormier.

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Happy Thanksgiving!

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The article offers recommendations including starting with smaller portions that you can finish. From the article: The past few months have been tough for many passengers using bus stations and curbside spots across the country. Bus transportation. Thanksgiving is a time of big travel. One overlooked segment is inter-city buses.