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Small college economic issues threaten their ability to function as a community asset

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

. -- " University President Freeman Hrabowski and an agenda for urban universities ," 2021 -- " President of Washington State University dies: fostered development of the "University District" adjacent to Downtown Spokane ," 2015 -- " Universities as elements of urban/downtown revitalization: the Portland State story and more ," 2014 -- " Better2016 (..)

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Revisiting the Community Land Trust: An Academic Literature Review

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Housing prices have increased far faster than incomes (Miller 2015), making affordable homeownership inaccessible for many aspiring homeowners (Hackett et al. CLT homeownership helps to protect property values from economic shocks—both the property owned by the trust and other properties nearby (Decker 2018, Nelson 2020).

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Salt Lake City Capital Improvement Program process allows for citizen initiated projects

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Citizen-initiated projects are managed and constructed by one of the four city divisions deemed the subject area for the project (Parks and Public Lands, Public Works and Transportation, Economic Development & Neighborhoods, etc.). Generally they are supposed to.

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Relearning old lessons: Urban economics, agglomeration economies, and adaptive reuse of "a large stock of old buildings"

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Attendance at Thursday night programs and networking events at Venture Care have drawn an average of 419 people this fall, up from353 in 2019. Small-firm economic development in the cultural sectors. Location of arts development agencies and companies. Some gatherings are larger now than in pre-pandemic times.

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Capital One Arena, Wizards and Capitals may move to Alexandria | Why not the RFK campus?

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

. -- " If DC had visionary elected officials and planners it could use the new WMATA "BOS" study to push through the development of a separated Silver Line in DC (and Northern Virginia) ," 2019 (I know this is not what WMATA is recommending, see " Blue Loop? Metro eyes possible future stops in Georgetown, National Harbor ," WTOP-AM).

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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

The student asked me about the equitable development plan , which I wasn't involved in developing It has a bunch of points. Like Tower Hamlets' IdeaStores (" Neighborhood libraries as nodes in a neighborhood and city-wide network of cultural assets ," 2019), it should have been placed in the commercial district. Another link.

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I can't help but laugh. DC Mayor's third term as a platform for transformation

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She could just do the stuff I suggested before she was elected: A Marshall Plan for East of the River -- " Social urbanism and equity planning as a way to address crime, violence, and persistent poverty: (not in) DC " (reports on a conversation from 2013 and the process after) and during her two terms of office: Transformational health care -- " A (..)