Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
MAY 13, 2024
And when thinking about writing about it, I remembered a bus initiative back in 2006 too. Another aspect of the balkanized transit system in the DC area is that every jurisdiction has a different program for bus shelters--what Ivan Bennett, product design manager for the London bus program, calls "a lack of continuity."
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
DECEMBER 19, 2023
I have other pieces about options for funding. -- " Metrolinx Toronto: 25 potential tools to fund transit-transportation infrastructure ," 2013 suggests a more structured process for identifying funding than an interview published in the Post. Maybe this is no longer necessary. Funding options. The best would be a transit withholding tax.
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Public Policy Blog
JUNE 16, 2013
Image: Faggard, 2013. Paradoxically, technology modifies and enhances other types of distance as parents and managers alike bemoan their waning influence on followers who increasingly turn to smartphones and social media, rather than their immediate leaders for daily guidance (p. Mergel, Ines and Greeves, Bill (2013).
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
SEPTEMBER 23, 2022
Though I am privileged to be the general manager, it’s your Metro, so please let us know how we can serve you better. I am empowering all staff members to own our service outcomes and to proudly represent America’s transit system. As you travel the region this fall, I hope you will choose Metro.
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
NOVEMBER 14, 2023
EMPDC was created by the Barry Administration to be a CDC and to take over management of the market, but vendors and other stakeholders fought the idea, and the market remained managed by the city--for a time by a putative nonprofit--with different spaces, like North Hall (arts) and Sunday under the shed run by different entities.
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
APRIL 19, 2023
DC's planning function and capacity has diminished with each mayor since Anthony Williams left office in 2006. I have been interested in the opportunity for higher education infused urban revitalization for decades. I find DC's planning around higher education to be pretty disappointing. But that's not a unique failing.
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
APRIL 5, 2024
Programming tends to be provided in parks and public spaces that are managed by conservancies or business improvements districts--organizations that have separate funding sources, and with the luxury of only managing a few spaces, not many dozens. Mexico border between 1993 and 2006. Types of programs.
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