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Crain's Chicago Business: Crain's Forum on Rebranding Chicago

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

One of my earliest pieces " Town-City branding or "We are all destination managers now" " (2005) was later expanded into the concept of a city's elected officials and stakeholders are its brand managers in commercial district revitalization framework plans I wrote in 2008 for Cambridge, Maryland, and Brunswick, Georgia.

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Incrementalism as a concept of iterative improvement in government project development no longer a legitimate public administration theory

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Even though transit usage is much reduced in DC post-covid, I don't think DC elected officials understand how central transit is to the city's competitive advantage and identity. Nope, in 2015, plans to move forward were scuttled, seemingly forever (" Virginia Beach was right to reject light rail extension ," Norfolk Virginian-Pilot ).

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Metrorail Silver Line phase two opening this week

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Fifth, that activists and elected officials sure didn't understand how to be proactive (" The Silver Line WMATA story that WJLA-TV missed ," 2014). ," which listed 2 system and 27 network improvements, for a total of 29. But it's really a broader program than could be accomplished in the time frame of constructing the Silver Line.

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Remote workers: When do they count for local economic development incentives?

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

Local government elected officials and all attorneys have sworn an oath to uphold the state constitution, which is the supreme law of the land. 2015); John Martinez, 3 Local Government Law § 21:7, at 21-25 (2d ed. Constitutional context. Any discussion about economic development incentives must begin with the state constitution.