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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
MAY 10, 2024
For example, in a blog entry in 2016, I suggested that such information be provided at the Council District scale and that ward-focused committees address traffic safety and sustainable mobility in concerted ways.
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
. -- " Fighting blight by fixing up homes could bring down Philly gun violence, new study shows ," WHYY/NPR -- " Abandoned house repairs reduced nearby gun violenceAbandoned house repairs reduced nearby gun violence ," Penn Today (2023) -- " Urban Blight Remediation as a Cost-Beneficial Solution to Firearm Violence: A Citywide Cluster Randomized Trial (..)
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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
MARCH 15, 2023
The key is to constantly be focused and planning and forward looking. -- " HBCUs and the city: Relocating Cheyney University to Philadelphia? ," 2021 -- " Howard University announces wide ranging building program ," 2022 (Note, not saying HU is forward thinking. They've had a lot of problems)
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
OCTOBER 17, 2022
I've written a few entries on this topic in the past year and over the years: -- " Next Level Clustering of Business away from the Midwest, " 2022 -- " Boeing to move "headquarters" to Northern Virginia ," 2022 -- " How the closure of a Pfizer research center in Ann Arbor, Michigan led to the development of a biotech sector there ," 2021 -- " Why do (..)
Community and Economic Development Program of UNC
JULY 18, 2023
Almost 15 years ago, a brief CED blog post highlighted several resources for supporting or attracting local grocery stores, especially ones in rural areas. By 2016, it had lost that store. Source: Library of Congress – U.S. In 2011, Camden County, in far eastern North Carolina, had only one grocery.
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
JANUARY 18, 2024
So a blog entry is better. 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. Definitely this is another example of DC government's failure to focus and to be innovative. The issues are unchanging.
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
MARCH 1, 2024
But even before that I went back and forth on it. Was it merely DC trying to copy other unusual creative infrastructure endeavors (at the same time there was an attempt to create a similar bridge in London, under then Mayor Boris Johnson, " An absurd vanity project for our age – Boris Johnson’s garden bridge ," Guardian ).
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