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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
From the article: One study of Philadelphia’s Basic Systems Repair Program found that when even one home on a block received repairs, there was a 21.9% decrease in homicide rates.
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
SEPTEMBER 23, 2022
From the article: The capital improvement program reflects the region’s commitment to maintaining and improving your community’s $100 billion transit asset. My point is you ask for money when you are wildly successful and everyone is looking to join the bandwagon, not when you are failing, in crisis, and you have few friends.
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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
APRIL 19, 2023
That's why I have to laugh at the article in today's Post about USC, " D.C. From the article: District officials have spent months figuring out how to counter negative economic trends spurred by emptied offices downtown. officials hope new USC campus can aid in downtown’s comeback."
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
MARCH 1, 2024
Also see " A National Mall-focused heritage (replica) streetcar service to serve visitors is a way bigger idea than a parking garage under the Mall ," 2013. But even before that I went back and forth on it. That will add to the activation-specialness-fun element of the concept of the Bridge Park.
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
APRIL 18, 2024
The Tribune article asks the question of whether or not the streetcar is contributing to traffic reduction. The journal article " Making Cycling Irresistible ," inspired my own blog entry in 2008, " Ideas for Making Cycling Irresistible in DC." I'd say definitely not, the ridership is abysmal. NYC sponsors(ed?)
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
NOVEMBER 24, 2023
From the article: In a move aimed at expanding the tech sector’s economic development engine to more parts of the country, the Biden administration on Monday named 31 communities as innovation hubs that will work to advance a range of technologies, including autonomous systems, quantum computing, biomedicine and green energy.
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
MARCH 20, 2023
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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