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The Behind-the-Scenes Story of How One Libary Marketing Team Executed a Grand Opening of Epic Proportions for Their New Library Building

Super Library Marketing

Now, four years later, the new Helen Plum Library is finally open. I asked Sue and her team to share how they managed the final piece of that journey: the communication surrounding the building’s opening. “They had placed a Sorting Hat from Harry Potter on top of the platform where it scanned in the books. “I

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Crain's Chicago Business: Crain's Forum on Rebranding Chicago

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

the natural environment (open space, rivers, tree cover, watershed, etc.), and quality of place factors (arts, culture, historic preservation and heritage, education, public schools and libraries, urban design, etc.) the natural environment (open space, rivers, tree cover, watershed, etc.),

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Gaps in Parks Master Planning, Part Six | Art(s) in the Park(s) as a comprehensive program

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Art has shaped our perception of landscapes, parks, and other public spaces for 200+ years in the United States alone, and longer in Europe (" ‘Nature’s Nation’: How American art shaped our environmental perspectives ," Princeton University Art Museum). We recently saw an exhibit on Maynard Dixon at the BYU Museum of Art and were blown away.

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Gaps in Parks Master Planning, Part Six | Art(s) in the Park(s) as a comprehensive program

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Art has shaped our perception of landscapes, parks, and other public spaces for 200+ years in the United States alone, and longer in Europe (" ‘Nature’s Nation’: How American art shaped our environmental perspectives ," Princeton University Art Museum). We recently saw an exhibit on Maynard Dixon at the BYU Museum of Art and were blown away.

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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

And lots of times when people try to do this, they don't understand why the original project was successful and they fail. I'd say yes. A good example is Bilbao. -- " Why can't the "Bilbao Effect" be reproduced? The Bridge Park will be next to a freeway. Who wants to hang out by a freeway?

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The Impact of COVID-19 on Nonprofits and Grant Making

Peak Proposals

In the US, where shelter-in-place orders have started to roll out over the last week, small businesses are starting to struggle, with many already forced to layoff staff in response to government-mandated closures. Image by VektorKunst from Pixabay. The reason for the difference?

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Tending to Tenant’s Voices Online: The Garden’s proactive social housing tenant participation

Bang the Table

Where recent headlines reveal resident dissatisfaction with housing associations and limited ability for tenants voices to be heard as evidenced in the wake of the Grenfell disaster, Catalyst are proactively earning and keeping tenants’ trust. A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they shall never sit’ .

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