Rebuilding Place in the Urban Space

"A community’s physical form, rather than its land uses, is its most intrinsic and enduring characteristic." [Katz, EPA] This blog focuses on place and placemaking and all that makes it work--historic preservation, urban design, transportation, asset-based community development, arts & cultural development, commercial district revitalization, tourism & destination development, and quality of life advocacy--along with doses of civic engagement and good governance watchdogging.

Friday, February 17, 2006

Please stand by...

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I have been extremely busy the last couple days and won't be blogging today at all. Will try to catch up over the weekend.

Generally, the number of unique visits M-F range from 200+ to 380. Breaking 300 tends to be a pretty good day. Weekend visits range from 100+-200+.

If you really want to read something of this blog today, you can always poke through the archives. Even I'm surprised sometimes when I find things I forgot I wrote about. The one proviso about the archives is it took me awhile to figure out the sort of streamlined way of formatting I use now--small type for captions and quotes), making links live, etc.

For a couple things to read, how about ....

-- Maybe DC can learn that it has something that developers want
-- Baseball, Hot Dogs, Apple Pie, and Mixed Primary Uses
-- Community Preservation and Gentrification
-- Office buildings won't "save" Anacostia
-- Sim Civics -- "It's more than the data, stupid!"
-- Flea markets, layering, and placemaking
-- Did MCI Center really miraculously improve DC's east end? (Sorry Dan...)
-- (Why aren't people) Learning from Jane Jacobs
-- Speaking of creative asset utilization
-- The schism in architecture over places vs. "art-itechture"
-- YIMBYs from Brooklyn to DC -- Thinking about Community ...
-- Central Library Planning efforts and the City Museum, how about ...
-- Yesterday's testimony on the DC Main Streets program
-- Tourism Marketing and DC
-- You (Don't) really like me--DC and its suburbs

There's always the Post (Flickr photo by Elvert Barnes--who has over 13,000 photos in his Flick account, most of DC).
Newspaper boxes in SW, by Elvert Barnes

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