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A New Development Cycle

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About a year ago I interviewed my old urbanist friend Jim Kumon on the podcast (Part 1 | Part 2) about his work developing missing middle housing in the Twin Cities and other spots around the country and he mentioned something super interesting that a colleague reminded me of recently about the cycle of our

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This week on the Talking Headways podcast, we’re joined by Stephanie Dockery to discuss the Bloomberg Philanthropies Public Art Challenge. Stephanie discusses how a bus art can get a cult following, how artists are creating attention in their cities with temporary art, and what happens after the projects disappear. Find the Bloomberg Connects art app

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