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WMATA's latest bus improvement program

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

When I first saw coverage I thought, "what about the 2017" initiative, although granted it was before covid. From the presentation (" The Sign Design Society Event: Defining a City ," designworkplan) by Ivan Bennett, Design Manger for London Buses: One reason other systems have failed is the lack of continuity.

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BTMFBA: maintaining arts spaces in the face of rising real estate values | Seattle, New York City

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The discussion of Equinox and Brooklyn Army Terminal also covers community building and camaraderie amongst the artists, sharing equipment and help depending on needs, organizing events, etc.

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NBA All Star Game in Salt Lake, economic development hype | Pittsburgh Post-Gazette on the Pirates baseball team economics

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

But what earns him the most press is the work he oversees estimating the economic impact of marquee sporting events on their host cities. Especially when many might attend special event dinners by sponsors, etc. Sports Events Tourism. But events tourism is still an important element of community identity building and marketing.

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

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Many small towns have decent quality of life because of the presence of small colleges, their economic and social capital impact, the offering of special events that are attractors, etc. For example, Shepherd University in Shepherdstown, West Virginia has a summer theater festival. Washington College in Chestertown, Maryland.

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To and from origin stations can be difficult: More on the Silver Line and intra-neighborhood transit (tertiary network)

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

In last week's piece on the opening of the second phase of the Silver Line (" Metrorail Silver Line phase two opening this week "), and in the original piece ("" Using the Silver Line as the priming event, what would a transit network improvement program look like for NoVA? ") I never did add a similar point.

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Do Lawyers Matter? Early Evidence on Eviction Patterns After the Rollout of Universal Access to Counsel in New York City

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

Access to free legal services for low-income tenants facing eviction has expanded across many jurisdictions, with New York City as the first to enact universal access to counsel (UAC) in 2017. UAC began with the ELS program and, in August 2017, it was expanded to phase-in legal services for all income-qualified tenants facing eviction.

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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

Boston versus the Raleigh-Durham's GoTransit Model ," 2017 -- " What Richmond can't teach DC about bus services ," 2019 Brightline is a new railroad passenger service that started in South Florida, is expanding to Orlando and intends to expand to Tampa.