Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
MAY 22, 2023
According to the urbanism blog Billy Penn (" Taylor Swift’s tour stop was a boom weekend for Philly, with hotel rooms nearly selling out — at $450 a night "), Taylor Swift's concert contributed to a hotel booking rate of over 90% in Philadelphia's Center City, and a significant increase in pricing.
Community and Economic Development Program of UNC
DECEMBER 9, 2022
More background on the legal and tax aspects of CLTs in North Carolina can be found in this earlier CED Blog post. 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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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
NOVEMBER 24, 2023
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). . = One overlooked segment in regional transportation planning is inter-city bus service/travel.
Community and Economic Development Program of UNC
JULY 18, 2023
Almost 15 years ago, a brief CED blog post highlighted several resources for supporting or attracting local grocery stores, especially ones in rural areas. In 2011, Camden County, in far eastern North Carolina, had only one grocery. Source: Library of Congress – U.S. “The town is either growing or it is dying.
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
NOVEMBER 2, 2022
Another element could be treating schools as "neighborhood cultural centers" too, the way I describe how neighborhood libraries should be positioned (" Neighborhood libraries as nodes in a neighborhood and city-wide network of cultural assets ," 2019). A big problem, at least in cities, is that households have a lot fewer children.
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
NOVEMBER 14, 2022
It fell into the same trap ," Washington Post ), reminds me that some of my earliest substantive blog writings concern WMATA and the Silver Line. But the failures in planning extend beyond DC (" Silver Line Metro expansion a classic example of the need to have true regional transportation planning ," 2011).
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
MARCH 1, 2024
Like Tower Hamlets' IdeaStores (" Neighborhood libraries as nodes in a neighborhood and city-wide network of cultural assets ," 2019), it should have been placed in the commercial district. The student asked me about the equitable development plan , which I wasn't involved in developing It has a bunch of points.
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