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DC's 11th Street Bridge Park project

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

I have discussed undergrounding/decking for North Capitol Street, the Southeast-Southwest Freeway, and parts of Connecticut Avenue in the core. -- " DC and "city repair" of the urban grid ," 2020 Freeway undergrounding and removal is a trendy move in urban planning these days (" Can Removing Highways Fix America's Cities? ," New York Times ).

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Bus stops as neighborhood focal points and opportunities for placemaking

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

See past blog entries: -- " Pathetic not revelatory: Quality of bus stop study in San Francisco ," 2021 -- " Bus shelters as social spaces, as potential vectors for virus: Seoul's new anti-covid bus shelter ," 2020 Project for Public Spaces has a report on the topic, Destination Station: Transforming Bus Stops through Community Outreach.

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Times Square Alliance Streetwatch program for reporting problems in the public space

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

STAND WITH US poster by Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya on trash receptacle along Broadway between West 45th and West 46th Street in New York City, NY on Tuesday night, 24 August 2021 by Elvert Barnes Photography I happened to notice a sticker on the can, promoting contacting the TSA when people see problems.