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Economic impact of big name concert tours: Taylor Swift in Philadelphia

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Although other events also contributed to this, including the University of Pennsylvania graduation. SEPTA ridership was higher, and some food establishments had stronger business.

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

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

At the same time, new galleries, pop-up exhibits and artist-led events like Forest For The Trees are bringing fresh blood to the neighborhood and upending the long-held ways galleries have operated.

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A Nevada Library Shares How They Used A Smart Video Marketing Strategy To Combat Drag Story Hour Protests

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In 2016 I made the conscious decision to pivot my resume towards library marketing and joined our Marketing and Communications team. Her library held its first Drag Story Hour in 2019. Washoe County Library held several more Drag Story Hour events. The options for variety really allow you to re-invigorate a long-term career.

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

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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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Gaps in Parks Master Planning: Part Four | Seasonality, Activation and Public Art as an element of facilities

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My writings on daypart planning (" Planning programming by daypart, month, season: and Boston Winter Garden, DC's Holiday Market, etc. ," 2016) are relevant to parks planning too. Cherry Blossom Festival in April) -- Events or programming related to the geographic interest area (neighborhood street festival, etc.) Seasonality.

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Arts as production: The rock music ecosystem in West Seattle

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I've written a bunch of articles on music as an element of the local arts ecosystem: -- " Ground up (guerrilla) art #2: community halls and music (among other things) ," 2011 -- " Under threat: Austin's music industry as an element of the city's cultural ecosystem and economy ," 2016 -- " Leveraging music for cultural and economic development: part (..)