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Florida's Brightline passenger rail as an opportunity to rearticulate and extend transit service in cities like Orlando

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

They are looking to improve transit but haven't had a lot of success--failed tax referenda in 2020 and 2022 with another possible attempt for 2024, and there is back-biting (" Mayor Demings wary of Universal’s SunRail expansion plan, cites ‘lack of transparency’ ," Mass Transit Magazine ).

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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

Maybe the National Park Service Urban Agenda: A call to action initiative (2015) can help facilitate this, but I am not holding my breath. The award-winning orchid curtain in the Exhibition Hall at Longwood Gardens' 2015 Orchid Extravaganza. But even before that I went back and forth on it. Another link.

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

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Town-city management: We are all asset managers now " (2015) is a further extension of these ideas, in part around risk management (" Where is the risk management approach to police misconduct and regularized killings of citizens? ," 2020). the natural environment (open space, rivers, tree cover, watershed, etc.),

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Gaps in Parks Master Planning, Part Six | Art(s) in the Park(s) as a comprehensive program

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Anti-Semitic vandalism on Anish Kapoor’s Dirty Corner, Versailles, France, 2015. Lee statue with a revisionist exhibit placed around it (" Monuments, historiography, and change ," 2020). In response, the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities attempted to suppress certain forms of expression (" After outcry, D.C.

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Gaps in Parks Master Planning, Part Six | Art(s) in the Park(s) as a comprehensive program

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Anti-Semitic vandalism on Anish Kapoor’s Dirty Corner, Versailles, France, 2015. Lee statue with a revisionist exhibit placed around it (" Monuments, historiography, and change ," 2020). In response, the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities attempted to suppress certain forms of expression (" After outcry, D.C.