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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

They have branded special event transit service, provide service to certain airports, and the Port of Miami Cruise Terminal, etc. Brightline is a true innovator in creating transit service zones around their stations, some services are free, others cost money or are built into premium services.

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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

Those are destination events, not events in a local park. Parks will also do ticketed events or rent out their space to big music festivals like Lollapalooza in Grant Park in Chicago.) These too tend to be destination events. Plein Air events. Special lighting events. Destination events and problems.

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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

Those are destination events, not events in a local park. Parks will also do ticketed events or rent out their space to big music festivals like Lollapalooza in Grant Park in Chicago.) These too tend to be destination events. Plein Air events. Special lighting events. Destination events and problems.

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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. 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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Gaps in Parks Master Planning: Part Eight | Civic Engagement and Positive Promotion of Democracy

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Also see " Third place issues " (2024) and " Strangers are good for us ," an op-ed by David Sax in the New York Times. I believe in conferences can be great training events. Park People of Canada does local events and a national conference.

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Powering digital transformation in Canada: AWS Summit Ottawa keynote recap

AWS Public Sector Blog

One such investment is the AWS Canada West (Calgary) Region, launching in late 2023/early 2024. SSC was created in 2011 to transform how the government manages and secures its IT infrastructure. Join us at next year’s event on April 20, 2023, and discover the next wave of cloud-powered change. And this is just the beginning.