Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 11, 2024

In 2014, I visited Hamburg, Germany which has an amazingly integrated transit system with multiple modes--train, subway, bus, ferry--reaching hundreds of miles into two adjoining states. I note that GGW just wrote about this this week. Hamburg's transport association is the model. German VV as the model for DC.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

I guess that was an opening salvo for Mayor Bowser, as the Post ran an article today about her wanting to address this (" As D.C.’s Earlier in the week there was a not particularly enlightening oped by former DC Planning Director Andrew Trueblood suggesting a reconsideration of the Height Limit (" A monumentally modest change to D.C.’s

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

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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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

From the article: In a move aimed at expanding the tech sector’s economic development engine to more parts of the country, the Biden administration on Monday named 31 communities as innovation hubs that will work to advance a range of technologies, including autonomous systems, quantum computing, biomedicine and green energy.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Although Guardian articles show how minimal the use is of a typical golf course in a good day, fewer than 150 patrons (" Building houses on Britain’s vast, exclusive golf courses makes sense for everyone – even golfers ," " London golf courses could provide homes for 300,000 people, study says "). Because downtown D.C.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 23, 2023

From the article: Kunkel, director of Temple University’s Sport Industry Research Center , is referring to the economic impact enjoyed by hosts of what’s evolved into a three-day-long basketball bacchanal that briefly transforms the cities it touches, and which happens to be coming to Salt Lake City next month.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 9, 2022

charlie shares with us an article by Edwin Heathcote, the architecture columnist for the Financial Times , " Can a city be redesigned for the new world of work? There is an article about how public schools are weak in customer service (" Survey: Majority of parents say schools’ customer service needs improvement ," K-12 Dive).

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 19, 2023

That's why I have to laugh at the article in today's Post about USC, " D.C. From the article: District officials have spent months figuring out how to counter negative economic trends spurred by emptied offices downtown. officials hope new USC campus can aid in downtown’s comeback."

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 18, 2024

The Tribune article asks the question of whether or not the streetcar is contributing to traffic reduction. The journal article " Making Cycling Irresistible ," inspired my own blog entry in 2008, " Ideas for Making Cycling Irresistible in DC." I'd say definitely not, the ridership is abysmal. NYC sponsors(ed?)

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

First, Virginia's focus on privatization, which is why the Silver Line was not built by Metro (" Silver Line delays: maybe the real lesson is that contracting out construction to the private sector doesn't always work so well ," 2014). You don't complain about system problems when it opens, but before. Proposed Gatineau-Ottawa transit loop.

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PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting

JUNE 27, 2016

BPBI Project Update to Priorities Committee - September 16, 2014 When complete in 2015/16, these processes will simplify and strengthen business planning and budgeting at Strathcona County, providing focus and direction to all of the County’s activities. This new article below ( Can priority-based budgeting do the job? )

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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. To ride is expensive compared to the regional commuter rail in South Florida and Brightline has had serious problems with crashes with vehicles and pedestrians. Lots of deaths. But it's quite impressive in two ways.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MARCH 10, 2023

percent) in 2014, after having been purposefully increased by the FHFA and the two GSEs in prior years. percent range since 2014, rather than being materially lower or higher, does not seem to be well understood in the industry or among policy specialists. percent to 0.49 percent to 0.49 The two portfolios together peaked at over $1.5

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 21, 2024

The article " Philadelphia’s Market Street East searches for growth and renewal — with or without a new Sixers arena ," has an interesting section on a community meeting where people who weren't into the arena concept suggested alternatives. and Baltimore metropolitan areas ," Transport Policy , 2014. Transit and economic development.

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