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Interesting study on litter focuses on the brand of the trash

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

And I wrote more pieces over the years. -- " Every litter bit hurts ," 2005 -- " Litter revisited ," 2006 Photo by Inked78. From the article: The community interest company Planet Patrol created an app for people to record the litter they find and remove. 700 block of H Street NE.

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WMATA is pathetic: of course it belongs to "the public"

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

From the article: The capital improvement program reflects the region’s commitment to maintaining and improving your community’s $100 billion transit asset. The question of how best to fund Metro is an important one that requires thought leadership and extensive community input.

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Eastern Market DC's 150th anniversary last weekend | And my never realized master plan for the market

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

In 2005, I served on the advisory committee for the International Public Markets Conference which covered both DC and Baltimore that year, led a tour, etc. I first proposed to the city creating TMDs in 2005/2006. They still haven't. I mentioned it over time. I imagine it was mostly wasted. We did this in 2008 or 2009.

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The GSE Public-Private Hybrid Model Flunks Again: This Time It’s the Federal Home Loan Bank System (Part 1)

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

3 The release of the FHFA report has also sparked a flurry of articles, op-eds, and think tank reports either supporting or countering some or all the recommendations. This two-part article argues that the root cause of their need for reform is a fundamental flaw in Congress’ design of GSEs.

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Metrorail Silver Line phase two opening this week

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

This should have been done as part of BRAC planning, something I first suggested in 2005.) Proposed Gatineau-Ottawa transit loop. Flickr photo by Clagmaster of the Bilbao Tram leaving the Guggenheim Museum. Extending the Yellow Line south on Rte.

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Closing Cost Reform: Long Overdue and Worth the Fight (Part 1)

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

Part 1 of this article will address several questions to lay the groundwork for a broader discussion about closing and related transaction costs in Part 2. For the sake of simplicity, this article will mainly focus on lender’s title insurance. First, it is a significant contributor to buyer-paid closing costs. 10] See [link]. [11]

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Swarming and Followership; Distance Leading

Public Policy Blog

at with opportunity for direct “horizontal communication” between network peers (Schmidtchen, 2006) and as I would also point out, leaders inspire social action or other participatory behavior. Retrieved from h ttp://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/documented_briefings/2005/RAND_DB311.pdf. Arquilla, John, and David Ronfeldt, eds.,