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Department stores are an "urban technology" built for walking not driving

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We have car cities. -- " Responding to retail decay in Friendship Heights (DC/Montgomery County, Maryland) ," 2023 -- " Friendship Heights and the production of retail decay ," 2020 -- " Urban decay and sprawl: one community's gain at the expense of another's ," 2011 -- " A brief lesson in "incentivizing" supermarkets and department stores ," 2007 (..)

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DC's 11th Street Bridge Park project

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I have discussed undergrounding/decking for North Capitol Street, the Southeast-Southwest Freeway, and parts of Connecticut Avenue in the core. -- " DC and "city repair" of the urban grid ," 2020 Freeway undergrounding and removal is a trendy move in urban planning these days (" Can Removing Highways Fix America's Cities? ," New York Times ).

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Responding to retail decay in Friendship Heights (DC/Montgomery County, Maryland)

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The reality is that then successful districts like Friendship Heights and Georgetown still faced voracious competition, but from the suburbs (" Turnabout is fair play: why Topher Matthews/GGW is wrong about TIF incentives for a department store in Georgetown ," 2012). So I was missing the point.

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

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I'm not into it, but it's a kind of extension of that idea, but for space and place.

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The unintended consequences of converting office buildings to housing: the need for public safety; schools; amenities

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. -- " The layering effect: how the building blocks of an integrated public realm set the stage for community building and Silver Spring, Maryland as an example ," 2012 -- " Better practices in parks planning: Montgomery County Energized Places initiative ," 2017 -- " From more space to socially distance to a systematic program for pedestrian districts (..)

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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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How to Save Downtown ," in Crain's Chicago Business about the revitalization of Griffith, Indiana Maybe not a full scale huge revitalization initiative based on greening, but why not?