Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JULY 3, 2023

But definitely these results provide guidance on making decisions about how to promote a park and its activities, and whether or not to be more proactive in creating and delivering activities, focused on increasing use, and as a result greater physical activity and presumably, individual health benefits.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 12, 2023

It's definitely a real estate play. 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. Because downtown D.C. has come back to life. They’re all sad ," about how this would harm DC. Other areas too.) So it depends.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 9, 2022

While this criticism can be extended to most services delivered by bureaucratic organizations, it's definitely the case that students in public schools are "customers" too, and thinking about and addressing their comfort likely will have a positive impact on educational outcomes.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

This was proposed a number of years ago for EM, first in the Barry Administration and then around 2012-2013, but the vendors fought it, with the support of now Mayor Muriel Bowser. But definitely eater-tainment. Contrast Eastern Market to most food halls. EM also closes at 7 pm! Allow the sales of alcohol. Rumsey Underground: Arts.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 18, 2024

I'd say definitely not, the ridership is abysmal. I hadn't thought about it, but maybe SLC is ripe for the double deck bus approach (" Making bus service sexy and more equitable ," 2012) for rebranding and repositioning of bus service as sexy, even though the ridership numbers wouldn't justify it otherwise.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 1, 2024

The academic literature has tended to not differentiate between hard and soft infrastructure, but instead focuses on the definition of types of facilities, focusing on differences in type of space and programming. Develop programs focusing not just on presentation or consumption of the arts, but arts production too.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 18, 2024

Definitely this is another example of DC government's failure to focus and to be innovative. There's a letter to the editor in yesterday's Washington Post , " D.C. must step up on road deaths." It's a good letter. I started writing a response in the comments, but it was too long. So a blog entry is better.

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