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Arts as production: The rock music ecosystem in West Seattle

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

We would call these "naturally occurring arts districts" in the vein of " naturally occurring retirement communities " and what I call "naturally occurring innovation districts" (" Naturally occurring innovation districts | Technology districts and the tech sector ," 2014).

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National Community Planning Month: Schools as neighborhood anchors

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

This school is located a couple blocks from our DC house, and for the first few years after it opened, they made a big effort to do outreach to the neighborhood, to invite residents to school events, etc., but it fell off. I think this is an element of their " expeditionary learning " approach.

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Happy Thanksgiving!

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Hopefully there are events and other occasions in our lives that we can be thankful for this year. 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). In my vegetarian household, that figure is 100%.)

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GEJET - Great Eastern Japan Earthquake and Tsunami (and Nuclear Release) - Tenth Anniversary

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

The tsunami museum at Rikusentakata, seen from atop the coastal tsunami barrier across the land that was devastated by the waves in March 2011 Thursday 11 th March 2021 was the tenth anniversary of the Japanese triple disaster: earthquake, tsunami and radiation release. A tsunami is usually nothing like the breakers that surfers ride.

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Metrorail Silver Line phase two opening this week

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

First, Virginia's focus on privatization, which is why the Silver Line was not built by Metro (" Silver Line delays: maybe the real lesson is that contracting out construction to the private sector doesn't always work so well ," 2014). You don't complain about system problems when it opens, but before.

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What should the program for a Transportation Management District look like?

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I am always amazed seeing photos from Open Streets events, and I wonder, how come I don't see that many bicycles out in the community ordinarily? -- Produce a brochure promoting biking in the greater neighborhood. a Bike Expo in association with the 5 Boro Ride, which had more than 100 exhibitors and 50,000 attendees in 2014.

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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

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

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.