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The unintended consequences of converting office buildings to housing: the need for public safety; schools; amenities

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

To riff off this, there are five other elements at a minimum that matter a lot, that cities aren't budgeting or planning for, if their central business districts become meccas for housing: public safety.

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Disorder | Fare evaders at Columbia Heights Metrorail Station, Washington, DC

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

From the DOJ paper: The research produced an alternative interpretation of the link between disorder and crime, one that sees many elements of disorder as part and parcel of crime itself. Viewed this way, disorder and crime are manifestations of the same phenomenon.

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Vision Zero initiatives on the decline: Cache County Utah shows another way

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

hits 16-year high on traffic deaths ," Washington Post And because we don't provide actionable information and the structures to address the problem.

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The Sisyphus Files – Repeated Issues in Performance Audits

Barrett & Greene

For the 10 former employees who had criminal justice access, the failure to deactivate also permitted continued use of the National Crime Information Center and the International Justice and Public Safety Information Sharing Network.

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If you're going to promote electric bikes at scale, there needs to be complementary investment in secure bicycle parking and charging

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Bicycle Traffic as a system, diagram, German National Bicycle Plan, 2002-2012. One of the biggest problems with cycling take up, besides the fact that it's slower, so longer trips are less likely to be capturable--even so, 64% of all US trips are 7 miles or less--is secure bicycle parking.

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How the public sector is working with Google Cloud to improve the health, safety, and wellbeing of citizens

Google Public Sector

The City of Los Angeles , for example, is leveraging the cloud to design systems that visually share public safety and community services information during natural disasters to ensure citizens can easily find evacuation shelters, sandbag stations, local hardware stores, and real-time weather reports.

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Bicyclist deaths-bicycle safety

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

But I was thinking that there needs to be some highly visible defensive cycling classes in public plazas and parks around the city, to build the understanding of how to cycle more safely. Participants take part in a mass yoga class to mark the summer solstice on Times Square in New York, June 20, 2012. AFP PHOTO/Emmanuel Dunand.