Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 2, 2022

An article in the Philadelphia Inquire r makes the point that the "fashion" initiative had no legs because of white flight and a change in the industry in terms of fast fashion (" White flight and fast fashion meant Market Street never got the attention it deserved. billion arena in Center City "). Could the 76ers change that? ").

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

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 9, 2022

charlie shares with us an article by Edwin Heathcote, the architecture columnist for the Financial Times , " Can a city be redesigned for the new world of work? There is an article about how public schools are weak in customer service (" Survey: Majority of parents say schools’ customer service needs improvement ," K-12 Dive).

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

From the article: Community schools, which, among other things, integrate nonprofits, businesses and colleges on the school site to offer services to students and their families, have existed for more than a century. Students, parents, and teachers participating in a clean up of the school grounds, Wasatch Elementary School, Salt Lake.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 11, 2024

From the article: In a news release sent out Wednesday, officials said that the organizations’ Boards of Directors will meet on May 1 to start “months-long discussions about how to efficiently provide, fund, and govern public transit.” It's about speed versus access. I note that GGW just wrote about this this week.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 1, 2024

From the article: Surveying the 30-plus public gardens, arboretums, historical landscapes, and support groups that comprise Greater Philadelphia Gardens, consulting firm Econsult Solutions added up the digits and found an economic impact of $256 million a year, a big boon for the tourism industry.

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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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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 19, 2024

From another NYT piece, " What We Learned From Bogotá’s Buses ," about the article: That’s a lesson I took away from my reporting. Another DC example is development on the site of the Takoma Metrorail station (" The Takoma Metro Development Proposal and its illustration of gaps in planning and participation processes ," 2014).

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Louis article (paragraphs reordered): Every aspect of operations was reexamined with an eye toward keeping passengers safe. After a series of violent crimes, leaders here took decisive action starting in 2018. Liverpool Echo photo. Louis also faced issues with rising crime and declining ridership that predated the pandemic.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JUNE 19, 2023

From the article: Meanwhile, a few hundred feet away, Pioneer Square mainstays Linda Hodges Gallery and the Center on Contemporary Art are celebrating a different milestone: their last First Thursday Art Walk. Hotel Development ," Bisnow), and retail spaces that are getting crushed.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 17, 2022

The Winston-Salem Journal has a really great article about this process, " Triad weathers corporate HQ departures with manufacturing revival." These days, not unlike Caterpillar living Peoria for Chicago, and now to Texas, Winston-Salem is experiencing the loss of those corporations, especially as they further consolidate and relocate.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

I guess that was an opening salvo for Mayor Bowser, as the Post ran an article today about her wanting to address this (" As D.C.’s Earlier in the week there was a not particularly enlightening oped by former DC Planning Director Andrew Trueblood suggesting a reconsideration of the Height Limit (" A monumentally modest change to D.C.’s

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MARCH 10, 2023

percent) in 2014, after having been purposefully increased by the FHFA and the two GSEs in prior years. percent range since 2014, rather than being materially lower or higher, does not seem to be well understood in the industry or among policy specialists. percent in 2014 and then stayed in the 0.44 percent to 0.49 percent to 0.49

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MARCH 30, 2024

In Tampa, the two counties can't figure out how to work together on transit, nor can they build support within their counties ( Voters reject Greenlight Pinellas ," Tampa Bay Times , " My Ride/My Road: Polk County Voters Reject 1-Cent Sales Tax Increase ," Lakeland Ledger, 2014). An article about the aftermath in the Post , " Va.

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