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• Another historic preservation followup

  
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  1.  A nice piece on preservation month activities in Boston, " Preservation Can Be Inspiring — this month (and every month) ," from Planners Web. 2.  The article mentions how the City of Boston Landmarks Commission has coordinated 50 events throughout the month.   Heres the calendar and program of all the events ...
  3 days ago

• High school senior revitalizing Salish

  
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  Vance Home Gun, a high school senior, created an organization named “Yoyoot skwkwimlt” to promote Salish, also known as Montana Salish (fla). Read an interview with Gun in “Language Preservation Made Vance Home Gun a Champion for Change.”
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• 05-10-13 EPA Brownfields grant supports Cheyenne, WY’s efforts to redevelop contaminated properties in the West Edge area…

  
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  (Denver, Colorado—May 9, 2013) At a ceremony in Downtown Cheyenne, Wyo., U.S. Environmental Protection Agency assistant regional administrator, Martin Hestmark, today presented Mayor Richard Kaysen with a $1,000,000 grant for the assessment and cleanup of contaminated properties in the City of Cheyenne’s West ...
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• Revitalization projects in weak real estate markets are very hard to finance

  
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  As critical as I often am of community development corporations, the nonprofit development and revitalization organizations that were created starting in the 1960s to jump start reinvestment in center cities when development and financing trends shifted toward preferencing of developments in the suburbs, the reality ...
  1 week ago

• Food truck issue revisited (DC)

  
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  The food truck legality question is of issue now in DC, because the citys Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs has prepared regulations that are pretty constricting. See " Curbed: Could New Regulations Kill DCs Food Truck Culture " from the Washington City Paper .  The anti-regulation oriented Washington ...
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• Resources: US tribal colleges/universities and revitalization

  
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  Laura Paskus has compiled a list of books and articles about language revitalization. See her “24-4 Summer 2013 “Language Revitalization” Resource Guide” on the Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education site. The article includes a link to a map of tribal colleges and universities in the US.
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• Reviving Barngarla from 19th century dictionary

  
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  Once spoken in South Australia, Barngarla (bjb) is making a comeback from written records and elders’ memories. The awakening of the language is being led by the Chair of Endangered Languages at Adelaide University, Ghil’ad Zuckermann, who has vowed to make Adelaide a center of language revitalization. The ...
  2 weeks ago

• Native Language Revitalization Directory updated

  
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  The Indigenous Languages Institute maintains a directory of native language organizations primarily in the United States. Juniors at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts are required to complete a social project, and the ILI is one of the institutions that students work with for their project. This ...
  2 weeks ago

• University of Arizona June Courses: Taking Language Home

  
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  Between 3 and 28 June, the American Indian Language Development Institute at the University of Arizona is offering seven courses aimed at helping people document, learn and maintain languages. The offerings are: Where Are Your Keys by Evan Gardner, Community Language Archiving by Shannon Bishoff, Creating Linguistic ...
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• Retail delivery makes sense from a resource standpoint

  
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  For many many years Ive argued in favor of piloting (its not really "piloting" because it used to be done as a matter of course) shared delivery services so that people wouldnt "have to " drive to the store to bring back their purchase... (1) since maybe 2004, as part of the launch of DC/USA--where Target, Best Buy, ...
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• Kim Mathews’ Cinderella Stories

  
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  In a lecture at the National Building Museum (NBM), Kim Mathews, RLA, ASLA, a founding principal of Mathews Nielsen , discussed resiliency and renewal through her firm’s “Cinderella projects.” The lecture was hosted in celebration of National Landscape Architecture Month (NLAM) and as part of NBM’s Smart ...
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• 360 Apartment building + Giant Supermarket vs. a BP gas station, which would you choose?

  
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  Yesterday was the grand opening of the Giant Supermarket on H Street NE. In a first for Giant, the store is on the ground floor of a five story apartment building called the 360 Apartment Building, so it ends up being the first Giant Supermarket that is part of a residentially-focused vertical mixed use project (as ...
  2 weeks ago

• Measuring Socially Sustainable Urban Regeneration in Europe

  
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  by Andrea Colantonio and Tim DixonPrevious research on sustainability has been mainly limited to environmental and economic concerns. However in recent years social sustainability has gained increased recognition as a fundamental component of sustainable development, beginning to receive political and institutional ...
  3 weeks ago

• Watch out High Line, Here Comes the Bloomingdale Trail

  
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  Based on a tour and then a closer look at the nearly-finished designs for Chicago’s Bloomingdale Trail , the 3-mile elevated rail park may give the High Line park in New York City a run for its money. The $91 million project co-designed by Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates , Collins Engineers , local Chicago ...
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• The 2013 BMC Conference video webcast April 29 – May 1, 2013

  
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  The conference will be held April 29 – May 1, 2013 at the Lansing Center in Lansing, Michigan. Date: April 30th-May1st, 2013 Time: Monday April 29th: 12:00pm-1:15pm Keynote Speaker Barney Frank Tuesday April 30th: 11:45AM-1:15PM Awards Luncheon Emcee Jess Sobel Wednesday May 1st: 12:00 noon Closing Speaker — ...
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• Green Infrastructure: A Landscape Approach

  
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  Green infrastructure is starting to mean different things to different people, said David Rouse, ASLA, a landscape architect and planner at Wallace, Roberts & Todd (WRT) during a session at the American Planning Association (APA) conference in Chicago. Rouse was there with Theresa Schwarz, Kent State ...
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• Vibrant Arts Community Brings Thousands to Downtown Phoenix

  
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  The streets came alive on April 13th, 2013 as thousands of people flooded 1st Street to partake in the inaugural Feast on the Street , hosted by Arizona State University’s Art Museum and Roosevelt Row Community Development Corporation . The idea was simple – bring together the community by hosting a dinner on ...
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• Valley Youth Theatre to Host Global Water Mural Series

  
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  #Water Writes , a global public arts initiative spearheaded by the Estria Foundation , has enlisted community artists to paint the tenth of 12 water-themed murals on the south-facing wall of Valley Youth Theatre , located on the corner of Fillmore and First Street in Downtown Phoenix. Each of the locations ...
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• Meeting tonight: Arts placemaking project in Baltimore involving the European Union National Institutes of Culture

  
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  I didnt find out about this til an hour ago, otherwise I would have tried to go, especially as the  European Union National Institutes of Culture has reached out to me on this project because someone introduced them to my writings on arts and revitalization. I have been somewhat critical of some of the discussion ...
  4 weeks ago

• Five Trends, a Promotion and a New Member of Our Team

  
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  First, thank you to the many colleagues and friends who noticed that we have not been filing inboxes with Economic Architecture over the past few months. As I am sure you can relate, the excuse is simple – we have been really busy. Since January, we have had incredible opportunities to work with national and ...
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