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Claude Cormier, creative landscape architect

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

I'm definitely adding this book to my list to read. Strings of pink plastic balls form a ribbon along a section of Ste-Catherine Street, commonly called the Village, in Montreal, Thursday, June 23, 2016. Cormier's projects aren't average, they have verve. Catherine Street in the summer, when the street is closed to traffic.

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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

From the article: What’s featured here is not definitive, and perhaps not even fully representative of what it looks like to have an artistic space of one’s own in the city. The Times article is more photo essay, but like the Equinox Studios article, has some kernels of wisdom on how properties have been able to remain comparatively low rent.

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Park system ratings for 2023 | Trust for Public Land ParkScore® rating system

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

But definitely these results provide guidance on making decisions about how to promote a park and its activities, and whether or not to be more proactive in creating and delivering activities, focused on increasing use, and as a result greater physical activity and presumably, individual health benefits.

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New form of BTMFBA in San Francisco

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

"Buy the Mother F Building Already" is a series of entries about best practice and worst practice in buying, holding, and developing properties for arts and culture related uses.

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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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November 2016 | The Past as Prologue: A Discussion with PMRA Founder H. George Frederickson, By Rosemary O’Leary*

PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

There is definitely a need for creativity.”. Examples include: Debates, tableaus, shuffling papers so that scholars present papers that are not their own, and a conference with only discussants (with the papers first being posted on the internet for all to read). How did we become so formulaic and bureaucratic in designing conferences?”

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Transforming the performance of your built assets and estate

Open Access Government - Technology News

A significant step forward for the construction industry The UK Government Building Information Modelling (BIM) mandate in April 2016 was a significant step forward for the construction industry, providing the processes and guidance, standards and governance for designing, constructing and operating built assets.

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