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WMATA's latest bus improvement program

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MAY 13, 2024

WRT bus service improvement see: -- " Making bus service sexy and more equitable ," 2012 -- " Will buses ever be cool? From the presentation (" The Sign Design Society Event: Defining a City ," designworkplan) by Ivan Bennett, Design Manger for London Buses: One reason other systems have failed is the lack of continuity.

2013

2013 Transportation 2016 2017

Foresight

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

APRIL 24, 2022

Inspired by the events that led to the fall of the Berlin Wall, 30 years ago Francis Fukuyama wrote his treatise on The End of History (Fukuyama 1992). History, of course, continues to be made, both as events and as some form of human social development. One is that the shifting context pilots events. References Fukuyama, F.

2012

2012 2013 Events 2011

With the post-covid decline of Downtowns, arts and cultural institutions are affected too

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JUNE 19, 2023

At the same time, new galleries, pop-up exhibits and artist-led events like Forest For The Trees are bringing fresh blood to the neighborhood and upending the long-held ways galleries have operated.

2016

2016 2017 2014 Economic Development

What should the program for a Transportation Management District look like?

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 18, 2024

I hadn't thought about it, but maybe SLC is ripe for the double deck bus approach (" Making bus service sexy and more equitable ," 2012) for rebranding and repositioning of bus service as sexy, even though the ridership numbers wouldn't justify it otherwise. Besides the general TDM approach, utilize other methods to promote transit.

Transportation

Transportation Management Parks And Recreation Housing

Master planning for solid waste | Creating a VV equivalent for solid waste management and service operating at the metropolitan scale

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 11, 2022

In transportation, it means that private parking resources are usually not addressed in parking planning (" Testimony on parking policy in DC ," 2012), private sector operators aren't addressed in planning for various modes. At an event yesterday, I asked and they estimated that probably 10% or less of glass is recycled in the area.

Parks And Recreation

Parks And Recreation Operations Transportation Sanitation

Big data/Machine Learning/AI as a policy savior

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Over the years I've written about the hype about big data and "apps," making the point that there is plenty of "little data" and academic analysis of policy that is already being ignored, despite the richness it offers for improvement in policy and practice. -- " All the talk of e-government, digital government, and open source government is really (..)

Article

Article 2012 2013 Development

Florida's Brightline passenger rail as an opportunity to rearticulate and extend transit service in cities like Orlando

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 20, 2023

They started planning in 2012, construction in 2014, and opened the first stations in South Florida in 2018. They have branded special event transit service, provide service to certain airports, and the Port of Miami Cruise Terminal, etc. Lots of deaths. But it's quite impressive in two ways. It's being built relatively quickly.

Transportation

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Transit as a formula for local economic success and improvements in regional quality of life

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 24, 2023

It's fair to say that in NYC Mayor De Blasio cares a lot less about this than former Mayor Bloomberg (" A Playbook on the Politics of Better Streets ," Bloomberg), and in DC, most elected officials are from "the outer city" where the automobile remains dominant (" DC as a suburban agenda dominated city ," 2013).

Transportation

Transportation Economic Development Sustainability Development

Options for Expanding Property Tax Relief for Lower Income Homeowners

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

MAY 17, 2022

Three years of deferred circuit breaker taxes are due and payable if the taxpayer transfers the home to another owner or stops using it as their legal residence (either of which is termed a “disqualifying event”). Let’s work through an example of the circuit breaker math.

Laws

Laws 2022 Local Government Housing

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

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

This was proposed a number of years ago for EM, first in the Barry Administration and then around 2012-2013, but the vendors fought it, with the support of now Mayor Muriel Bowser. Event space, Old Main Street Station, Richmond. WRT event planning, create and distribute an annual calendar of events.

Nonprofit

Nonprofit Development Management Events

Social Media for Social Good: What role does social media play in creation of and sustainability of social movements? A Social Movement Case Study Examining Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party.

Public Policy Blog

JANUARY 3, 2014

Prolific proponent of the networked society Manuel Castells (2011) describes mass media being displaced by mass self-communication (Deluca, Lawson, & Sun, 2012) in altering the communication model from one-to-one to many-to-many. Even better, it permits bypassing the traditional media with their message in real time as an event occurs.

Social Media

Social Media Sustainability 2011 2010

Current GSE Guarantee Fees Are Too Low to Be Consistent with Regulatory Capital: Does This Mean a Large Increase Is Coming?

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MARCH 10, 2023

Through 2013, the fee moved up strongly as part of the FHFA’s push to raise the cost of GSE mortgages in an attempt to “crowd in” more private market capital into mortgage lending. During much of conservatorship (specifically 2012 to 2019), strangely, capital was depleted by design. Also, the 0.10 Thus, a potential 0.20

2008

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Revisiting the 11th Street Bridge Park project as an opportunity rather than a folly: a new revitalization agenda for East of the River, DC

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 1, 2024

Also see " A National Mall-focused heritage (replica) streetcar service to serve visitors is a way bigger idea than a parking garage under the Mall ," 2013. That will add to the activation-specialness-fun element of the concept of the Bridge Park.

Parks And Recreation

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WMATA's latest bus improvement program

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With the post-covid decline of Downtowns, arts and cultural institutions are affected too

What should the program for a Transportation Management District look like?

Master planning for solid waste | Creating a VV equivalent for solid waste management and service operating at the metropolitan scale

Big data/Machine Learning/AI as a policy savior

Florida's Brightline passenger rail as an opportunity to rearticulate and extend transit service in cities like Orlando

Transit as a formula for local economic success and improvements in regional quality of life

Options for Expanding Property Tax Relief for Lower Income Homeowners

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

Social Media for Social Good: What role does social media play in creation of and sustainability of social movements? A Social Movement Case Study Examining Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party.

Current GSE Guarantee Fees Are Too Low to Be Consistent with Regulatory Capital: Does This Mean a Large Increase Is Coming?

Revisiting the 11th Street Bridge Park project as an opportunity rather than a folly: a new revitalization agenda for East of the River, DC

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