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With the post-covid decline of Downtowns, arts and cultural institutions are affected too

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The Job Description Is Changing ," New York Times = Other relevant blog entries -- " Reprinting with a slight update, "Arts, culture districts and revitalization" from 2009 " (2019) Cultural quarters and innovation districts -- discussion on the Arabianranta district within " Helsinki as an example of creative industries driving urban revitalization (..)

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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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Like Tower Hamlets' IdeaStores (" Neighborhood libraries as nodes in a neighborhood and city-wide network of cultural assets ," 2019), it should have been placed in the commercial district. What if the park sponsored daily educational enrichment activities for the young people in nearby neighborhoods?

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Gaps in Parks Master Planning: Part Four | Seasonality, Activation and Public Art as an element of facilities

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My writings on daypart planning (" Planning programming by daypart, month, season: and Boston Winter Garden, DC's Holiday Market, etc. ," 2016) are relevant to parks planning too. The park allows all community members to enjoy the space simultaneously. Seasonality. Sugar House Park, Salt Lake City.

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

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In turn that would help to spur development of the Pepco power plant site, which stopped producing electricity in 2012, and Benning Road further east, and Minnesota Avenue. From the WBJ : “I think that Chinatown will be fine even if the Verizon Center is moved,” said Ed McMahon, a senior resident fellow with the Urban Land Institute.

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Eastern Market DC's 150th anniversary last weekend | And my never realized master plan for the market

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I stepped down when we moved to Salt Lake in late 2019, although I thought at the time somehow I'd be maintaining residences in both places. Master Plan contract, 2019. In 2009, I was appointed to serve on the Community Advisory Committee, representing the Eastern Market Preservation and Development Corporation. Membership program.