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Desperate times sometimes lead to a more marketing-oriented guise: WMATA/Metrorail | Bonus: WMATA's financial crisis

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

First, in the early years of the blog I wrote a lot of pieces about transit marketing and doing a better job of it. Now a goodly amount of that is encapsulated in " Branding's (NOT) all you need for transit " (2018), but old pieces like " Making Transit Sexy " (2005), make the point too, less sophisticatedly.

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City of Kenmore Officials Find the Fun in 2017-18 Priority Based Budget

PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting

The City of Kenmore, Washington was the second organization to implement PBB, along with the City of Bainbridge Island , and both have been practitioners since 2013. Keep an eye on the CPBB blog for further updates. “Our major theme of the next two-year budget is ‘Where’s the fun?’” This piece is reprinted in full below. 24 meeting.

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Proposal to build new basketball arena in Downtown Philadelphia

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

It took me too long to admit that, partly because even though downtown arenas can be "a good thing," they are still oversold and don't accomplish as much as is touted.

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Straws and puffery: USC's DC "campus" as a lever for downtown revival

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Faculty creating a cluster, having bright children in schools, supporting community institutions, etc.,

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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

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. Elizabeths campus ," 2018 -- " Part three: the potential for donations around an expanded program ," 2018 Freeway capping. Underground them.

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

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

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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Missing obvious opportunities to strengthen rail-based transit systems: Philadelphia Navy Yard and improvements to the transit "network"/platform

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

From a PI blog entry in 2015 : The Navy Yard development is home to GlaxoSmithKline, Urban Outfitters, a Marriott and about 140 other companies. The project took six years to complete, and the station opened in 2012, with full service in 2013. About 13,000 people work there. Conclusion. It's been 26 years.

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