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Uphams Corner, Boston: revitalization "without" gentrification

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

. -- " Exogenous market forces impact DC's housing market ," 2012 -- " Applying the super-gentrification thesis to San Francisco, Santa Monica, and other cities experiencing hyper-demand ," 2014 -- " The nature of high value ("strong") residential real estate markets. ," 2017 -- " Why "gentrification" is visible now.

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What is the competitive advantage for the post-covid city? Doubling down on place values

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

So it's the "entertainment city" idea but extending it to many more elements, making work and other spaces "more fun," engaging and active. The FT article mentions the Prudential Center in Boston, calling attention to how the first two floors of the building are set up to be open and connected and engaging-- shopping and food.

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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. Organizing around the water is too limited given the issues. Ephemeral sculpture public art projects, the kinds of landscape initiatives in Montreal, the creative public space approaches of Claude Cormier.

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Current GSE Guarantee Fees Are Too Low to Be Consistent with Regulatory Capital: Does This Mean a Large Increase Is Coming?

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

percent) in 2014, after having been purposefully increased by the FHFA and the two GSEs in prior years. percent range since 2014, rather than being materially lower or higher, does not seem to be well understood in the industry or among policy specialists. percent in 2014 and then stayed in the 0.44 percent to 0.49 percent to 0.49

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The Road Not Taken | a response to a letter to the editor in the Washington Post about DC, traffic deaths and traffic safety

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

I've mentioned this for years (" Social marketing and aberrant driving ," 2020, " When the car lobby encourages law breaking ," 2012), but only recently after some high profile deaths is the city addressing this (" Reckless drivers in spotlight as D.C. Sometimes there are issues, admittedly, but mostly it's recklessness.

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Wizards and Capitals teams staying in DC after all and the failure of the mansion tax referendum in Chicago have one thing in common: failure to take the time to build consensus

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Georgia introduced a new way to create transportation districts, then expected people to vote up or down in less than a year (" Failure of the transit-roads sales tax measure in Metro Atlanta ," 2012). Nearly all of today’s mansion taxes were enacted or expanded between 2018 and 2023. There are plenty of other examples.

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