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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. Another aspect of the balkanized transit system in the DC area is that every jurisdiction has a different program for bus shelters--what Ivan Bennett, product design manager for the London bus program, calls "a 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

As of 2024, it’s never been harder for artists to find a place to work. But one group has managed to hold off the forces of gentrification — and keep growing — for almost two decades. Artists can and will work anywhere and, like their work itself, they’re limited only by the extent of their imaginations — and their finances.

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CFP: CJAL Special Issue: Libraries and/as Extraction

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CFP URL: [link] CJAL Special Issue: Libraries and/as Extraction 2023-10-16 The concept of extraction (or extractivism) has been used in myriad disciplines — geography, international relations, environment, economics — often to describe social formations around natural resource management. 2–3 (May 4, 2017): 175–84.

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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

Kunkel earned his PhD in sport management and has published a multitude of academic treatises on the complex interactions of brands, professional sports, and fans. Most of the amusement tax (fee on tickets) go to the Pirates baseball team, not the city. Economic impact study of Pittsburgh professional sports teams.

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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.

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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

Bilbao as an example of Transformational Projects Action Planning ," 2017 But I have to say that the student "inspired me" to rethink of the bridge park as an opportunity to reshape revitalization planning and practice in Anacostia. For years I've argued that DC should manage itself as a heritage area with or without designation.

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Call for Chapters: Teaching the Whole Student: Compassionate Instruction in the Academic Library (ACRL Publication)

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The cognitive, affective, and motivational tenants associated with compassion (Jazaieri 2018) relate to the concept of whole-person care, a social work practice where a person’s well-being is assessed in “the interplay among physical, environmental, behavioral, psychological, economic, and social factors” (NASW Standards, 1992).

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