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Florida's Brightline passenger rail as an opportunity to rearticulate and extend transit service in cities like Orlando

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They are looking to improve transit but haven't had a lot of success--failed tax referenda in 2020 and 2022 with another possible attempt for 2024, and there is back-biting (" Mayor Demings wary of Universal’s SunRail expansion plan, cites ‘lack of transparency’ ," Mass Transit Magazine ).

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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. Was it merely DC trying to copy other unusual creative infrastructure endeavors (at the same time there was an attempt to create a similar bridge in London, under then Mayor Boris Johnson, " An absurd vanity project for our age – Boris Johnson’s garden bridge ," Guardian ).

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Crain's Chicago Business: Crain's Forum on Rebranding Chicago

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Town-city management: We are all asset managers now " (2015) is a further extension of these ideas, in part around risk management (" Where is the risk management approach to police misconduct and regularized killings of citizens? ," 2020). the natural environment (open space, rivers, tree cover, watershed, etc.),

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Gaps in Parks Master Planning, Part Six | Art(s) in the Park(s) as a comprehensive program

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Lee statue with a revisionist exhibit placed around it (" Monuments, historiography, and change ," 2020). The Bilbao Garden, Balmori & Associates, 2011, International Garden Competition ( article ). And there were alternatives. E.g., I thought it would be cool to reinterpret the Robert E. Security and public art.

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Gaps in Parks Master Planning, Part Six | Art(s) in the Park(s) as a comprehensive program

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Lee statue with a revisionist exhibit placed around it (" Monuments, historiography, and change ," 2020). The Bilbao Garden, Balmori & Associates, 2011, International Garden Competition ( article ). And there were alternatives. E.g., I thought it would be cool to reinterpret the Robert E. Security and public art.