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Capital One Arena, Wizards and Capitals may move to Alexandria | Why not the RFK campus?

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

In 2018, I wrote a piece about the attempt to extend the RFK campus lease, but at the behest of the "Washington" NFL team, which has been based in Suburban Prince George's County for a couple decades. -- " Yes, modify and extend the RFK Campus lease; No, don't do it for the Washington Redskins football team " The RFK campus is on the right.

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Big data/Machine Learning/AI as a policy savior

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

TPAPs should be implemented at multiple scales: (1) neighborhood/district/city/county wide as part of a master plan; (2) within functional elements of a master plan such as transportation, housing, or economic development; and (3) within a specific project (e.g.,

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DC's 11th Street Bridge Park project

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Bilbao as an example of Transformational Projects Action Planning ," 2017 -- " Downtown Edmonton cultural facilities development as an example of "Transformational Projects Action Planning" ," 2018. The Bridges now. What's proposed, rendering with the park in place. " It's next to a freeway.

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Uphams Corner, Boston: revitalization "without" gentrification

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Multi-racial block parties were organized, a community association open to all was created, and eventually, a community development corporation was created which focused on improving properties, and developing new ones, including developing a portfolio of affordable housing which would always be affordable.

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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 started planning in 2012, construction in 2014, and opened the first stations in South Florida in 2018. To ride is expensive compared to the regional commuter rail in South Florida and Brightline has had serious problems with crashes with vehicles and pedestrians. Lots of deaths. But it's quite impressive in two ways.

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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

Equitable development plan. The student asked me about the equitable development plan , which I wasn't involved in developing It has a bunch of points. First is workforce development. Who wants to hang out by a freeway? A big concern about the park concept is that it will spur displacement and gentrification.

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Another attempt to raise discussion about the DC Height Limit

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

This forces less high value uses out of the city, counter to the Jane Jacobs point that cities need "a large stock of old buildings" -- based on the assumption of lower rents -- to support the development of innovative uses, and lower value uses that add to the diversity of a city (like a sewing machine repair shop).