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From Waste to Energy: How Urban Waste is Powering Our Cities

Reprogramming the City

The syngas can be further processed into electricity, heat, or transportation fuels (US Department of Energy, 2020). million gallons of low-carbon transportation fuels (Fulcrum BioEnergy, 2021). This reduces reliance on fossil fuels and supports the transition towards renewable energy sources (Arena, 2012).

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DC's 11th Street Bridge Park project

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

And these days the US Secretary of Transportation is pushing this as an environmental justice measure (" Pete Buttigieg launches $1B pilot to build racial equity in America's roads ," NPR). The Bridges now. What's proposed, rendering with the park in place. " DC should get on the bandwagon.

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Madison Wisconsin should be rethinking its pedestrian "district"

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Plans for a redesign of the State Street commercial corridor in downtown Ann Arbor as presented to the city's Transportation Commission by the Downtown Development Authority and SmithGroup in January 2022. Exhibition Road in London is much better design-wise ( Guardian review , 2012). But I suppose it is a start.

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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 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. Proposed Gatineau light rail loop to Ottawa to serve museums and the Byward Public Market is another model for intra-district transportation. Other areas too.)

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

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

. -- " Planning for place/urban design/neighborhoods versus planning for transportation modes: new 17th Street NW bike lanes | Walkable community planning versus "pedestrian" planning ," 2021 -- " 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 (..)

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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

The first proposes a "transport association" based on the German VV model, where all the local transit providers commit to integrated service, and a common schedule and fare system. They started planning in 2012, construction in 2014, and opened the first stations in South Florida in 2018. Lots of deaths.

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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

Out of region visitors spend on lodging, food, and transportation. The paper " Evaluating the economics of park-tourism from the ground-up: Leakage, multiplier effects, and the enabling environment at South Luangwa National Park, Zambia " Ecological Economics , 2021, argues that simple surveys can collect this type of information.