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With the post-covid decline of Downtowns, arts and cultural institutions are affected too

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The Job Description Is Changing ," New York Times = Other relevant blog entries -- " Reprinting with a slight update, "Arts, culture districts and revitalization" from 2009 " (2019) Cultural quarters and innovation districts -- discussion on the Arabianranta district within " Helsinki as an example of creative industries driving urban revitalization (..)

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WMATA and MWCOG announce new joint transit initiative | Could a regional "transport association" be on the horizon, or just a transit bailout?

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

According to Twitter and other news sources (" WMATA and MWCOG announce new joint transit initiative ," DC News Now) WMATA the operator of regional subway and bus services, and the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments, are going to start working together. It's about speed versus access.

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The basic lesson of intensification that government officials and activists don't understand: intensification happens first in high value areas, not low value areas

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

neighborhood ," 2019, (" Blaming Walmart for Skyland's failure is misdirected ," 2016," For the first time, Skyland Town Center's revitalization might have a chance: creating a community focused retail destination ," 2018). State Center; Park Heights; etc.)

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The Road Not Taken | a response to a letter to the editor in the Washington Post about DC, traffic deaths and traffic safety

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Definitely this is another example of DC government's failure to focus and to be innovative. Government has a bias for inaction. There's a letter to the editor in yesterday's Washington Post , " D.C. must step up on road deaths." It's a good letter. I started writing a response in the comments, but it was too long.

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FEDERAL TORTS CLAIMS ACT: Feres Doctrine Cracked? Opening of Pandora's Box or Further Encasement in Stone?

NLRG (National Legal Research Group)

On December 20, 2019, President Trump signed the National Defense Authorization Act ("NDAA"), SB 1790, 133 Stat 1198, into law. 1713 (2019) (majority denies writ of certiorari for husband's medical malpractice claim due to his Navy Lieutenant's wife's death during childbirth). at 143; see also United States v. DeVries , 139 S.

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Master planning for solid waste | Creating a VV equivalent for solid waste management and service operating at the metropolitan scale

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

And it imposes rules on the other properties, but doesn't do too much enforcement and oversight on recycling from multiunit residential and commercial properties (" Reformulating building regulations to promote sustainability, " 2016). In Greater Salt Lake, governments mostly don't do glass recycling directly.

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Missing obvious opportunities to strengthen rail-based transit systems: Philadelphia Navy Yard and improvements to the transit "network"/platform

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Proposed routes as of 2019 While the current transit planning efforts are focused on new bus services, long before now, SEPTA should have been moving forward on extending the Broad Street subway line by 1.5 Union Station railyard with MARC commuter train in the foreground.

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