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Three ideas about presentation of African American History in the context of Black History Month | reprint with an addition about the US Civil Rights Trail (versus the Dixieland Trail)

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"Doors Open" events were pioneered in Europe , and are when a community's culture organizations band together to provide a coordinated schedule of events, usually over a weekend, where people get free access to various cultural sites and events, many of which are not normally open to the public. The Toronto Star even publishes an event guide.

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Great Smoky Mountains Host Citizen Observers

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The citizen scientists’ contributions are part of a larger project called the All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory, which began in 1998 and is coordinated by the nonprofit Discover Life in America (DLiA). They’ve discovered at least 10,790 previously not recorded at that location. There’s also a tally of frequently seen species.

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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?

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The COG is the union of local governments and designated by the USDOT as the region's metropolitan planning organization for regional transportation planning and coordination. inter-city) transit planning ," 2011). Also see, " A thought about an intra-district transit network for Tysons ," (2020). It's about speed versus access.

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

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

A way to do this would be to organize transport associations in South Florida, Orlando, and Tampa, to coordinate transit services. They do have bus service, which in the past has been heralded as a great example of marketing and branding, and a poorly used commuter rail (it costs them more to collect fares than they make in fare revenue).

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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

Get the parks working together and coordinated. I think there are two different approaches that could break the logjam, one would be the designation of this area as a National Heritage Area , where NPS helps to coordinate a variety of federal, state, local and private assets in an integrated fashion.