Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 18, 2024

. -- " Yard sign, Person running for District Six Council in Salt Lake using traffic safety as a campaign issue ," 2023 Transportation management districts. for Downtown, H Street NE, Capitol Hill, etc.). Vision Zero. How to measure and benchmark traffic deaths? The issues are unchanging. Government has a bias for inaction.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 11, 2022

This comes up because a building materials recycling and resale organization in Philadelphia, Philly Reclaim , is shutting down because it was behind in rent, has organizational management issues, and the building is being sold (" Tacony salvage shop needs to move by Monday. It’s giving away sinks, lumber, and more ," Philadelphia Inquirer ).

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GovLoop

JULY 27, 2023

In 2019, the average visit time was 13 minutes, 4 seconds. The number jumped in 2020 and 2021 (the most recent year for which stats are available), first because of COVID restrictions and then staffing shortages. In fact, the effort was led by a former sporting goods executive, who put together a customer service management team.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JANUARY 18, 2023

Here is a full list of the datasets released or significantly updated this quarter joining over 350 datasets already available: Agriculture: Cropland Extent Map (2019) from Digital Earth Africa. Updated: NASA Earth Exchange Global Daily Downscaled Projections managed by NASA—now includes cloud-optimized GeoTIFF format.

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Social Pinpoint

APRIL 21, 2024

Fast forward to the fall of 2020, in the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, the City of Pittsburgh hosted a two-month, virtual open house for the Oakland Plan. Each session lasted three hours (10-1 pm and 5-8 pm), requiring a great deal of staff time in preparing and facilitating the open house events.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MAY 9, 2023

. -- " Broken windows/collective efficacy: Baltimore; Newark; Grand Junction, Colorado; Pittsburgh; Albany " (2019) A lot of academics criticize it, but I think they are missing the point. And I don't see things changing.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

. -- " Fighting blight by fixing up homes could bring down Philly gun violence, new study shows ," WHYY/NPR -- " Abandoned house repairs reduced nearby gun violenceAbandoned house repairs reduced nearby gun violence ," Penn Today (2023) -- " Urban Blight Remediation as a Cost-Beneficial Solution to Firearm Violence: A Citywide Cluster Randomized Trial (..)

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

JANUARY 13, 2023

The authors find evidence that average eviction filing rates were consistently higher in public housing than in other types of subsidized housing in the pre-pandemic period (2016-2019). 2020; Preston & Reina, 2021) compared public housing authorities to private landlords in individual markets. One study (Gromis et al.,

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 11, 2024

Also see, " A thought about an intra-district transit network for Tysons ," (2020). That's 7 years ago in March. -- " The answer is: Create a single multi-state/regional multi-modal transit planning, management, and operations authority association " Conclusion. inter-city) transit planning ," 2011). It's about speed versus access.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 3, 2024

Not as scintillating as the Boston Globe series (" Blueprints for a downtown Boston | Boston Globe "), but at least the business community is concerned about reputation and brand and identity management. From destination managers to city brand managers to community asset managers.

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MARCH 20, 2024

Also see " What would be a "Transformational Projects Action Plan" for DC's cultural ecosystem ," 2019. The Downtown Public Realm Plan is online now. From DC's Downtown Public Realm Plan.

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Center for Community Progress

AUGUST 25, 2022

In this chapter, John O’Callaghan , president and CEO of the Atlanta Neighborhood Development Partnership (ANDP), and Mandy Eidson , senior manager of the ANDP Loan Fund, share how ANDP is innovatively meeting affordable single-family housing needs in Atlanta. It has been lightly edited and condensed for the web.

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Google Public Sector

MAY 5, 2020

Last October, we committed to publish this information in early 2020 , and future transparency reports will continue to include it. These observations are based on the total number of government requests for user information (81,785) across all of Google we received from July 2019 to December 2019.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MAY 13, 2024

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." WMATA should upgrade its Metrorail station bus shelters.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Broadly, the GSEs began to act more like normal, competitive firms: developing better customer service, becoming more sophisticated in risk management, and heavily investing in technology of all types. This was publicly disclosed by Treasury Secretary Mnuchin in 2019.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

My overall take is that revitalization and commercial district success requires constant, ongoing management. But transportation is the biggest issue, better connections making it easier for people to go to other nearby districts, some of which (as I wrote about in the Eastern Market piece ) are more carefully managed to be constantly "on."

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Barrett & Greene

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

A similar problem was found in three prior Connecticut Department of Emergency Services audits which occurred in 2012 through 2019. A similar problem was also found there in 2020. Our hope is that columns like this one can help to draw management attention to audit findings that are depressingly common.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2022

The highest percent change in Coursera learner enrollment growth between Q4 2020 and Q4 2021 can be seen in the regions of Asia-Pacific (APAC), Middle East/North Africa (MENA), and sub-Saharan Africa. Across the globe, 44 percent of the people enrolled in Coursera courses are now women, up from 35 percent in 2019.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JULY 11, 2022

By the end of 2020, 495 million people subscribed to mobile services in Sub-Saharan Africa, representing 46% of the region’s population – an increase of almost 20 million from 2019. Advocacy is about taking action in real time, so we need to reach people wherever they are. In Africa, that means using mobile devices.

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MARCH 2, 2023

In early 2020, the Norton Police Department’s (NPD) on-premises, legacy system, failed them for the last time. Prior to 2019, NPD’s on-premises system was failing the agency in workflows and other important day-to-day agency tasks. Lifesaving services were down. Since deploying the SOMA platform, NPD has recognized numerous benefits.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JUNE 8, 2023

In March 2023, Management Information Systems Quarterly published an article highlighting how the Commonwealth of Virginia harnessed the power of data to save lives before, during, and after the pandemic. From January through March of 2019, 28 people in the Winchester community died from fatal Fentanyl overdoses.

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Super Library Marketing

JUNE 5, 2023

Photo courtesy Cincinnati and Hamilton County Public Library On a mild night in April 2019, I arrived at a steak restaurant in Schaumburg Township, Illinois to have dinner with a group of people I’d never met. Kristie Leslie is Marketing Manager for Helen Plum. Now, four years later, the new Helen Plum Library is finally open.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 1, 2024

Like Tower Hamlets' IdeaStores (" Neighborhood libraries as nodes in a neighborhood and city-wide network of cultural assets ," 2019), it should have been placed in the commercial district. For years I've argued that DC should manage itself as a heritage area with or without designation.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MARCH 10, 2023

4 That average will change slightly each year to reflect the normal annual variation in the mix of products and borrower characteristics – for example, it was up by two basis points (bp) in 2021 over 2020, but down by the same amount from the prior year. percent to 0.49 percent to 0.49

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 21, 2022

It turns out that it looks like the Philadelphia Pops Orchestra isn't going to shutter (" Philly Pops musicians and management reach tentative agreement for new contracts ," Philadelphia Inquirer ). Photo: Tom Gralish, Philadelphia Inquirer. Demise of arts organizations. Mention this a lot.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 27, 2024

Photo: SNCF Incorporating public art into park facilities -- " Artful playscapes ," Public Art Review -- " Integrating multiple amenities into public projects: cherry trees along the path at the University of Toronto Scarborough paths/trails " (2020) -- " Another example of the need to do comprehensive parks, recreation and civic assets planning at (..)

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Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

AUGUST 20, 2021

Researchers have identified four goals [vii] : secure land occupation, sufficient and resilient livelihoods, robust and resilient ecosystems, and adequate disaster risk and emergency management. For example, it ranks 170th out of 180 in Transparency International's Corruption Perceptions Index 2020. doi: 10.1108/DPM-08-2018-0263

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

In 2019, Ukraine’s Ministry of Digital Transformation was established and Mykhailo Fedorov was appointed minister to lead his country’s digital transformation. Italian citizens typically need to navigate through dozens of platforms in order to access public services or manage their obligations to the State.

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Barrett & Greene

JUNE 30, 2022

In researching the 26-year-old Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program recently, we had the chance to talk with Mary Beth Vogel-Ferguson, a University of Utah research professor who has spent the last 23 years in a state-funded project to interview TANF clients and share results with agency management and senior leadership. “My

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Microsoft Public Sector

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

to kickstart your content management journey! With the new default desktop experience, admins and editors will be able to edit content and manage permissions from Microsoft Teams. If an app publisher supports this feature, admins will discover a C2C button in the app card in the manage apps tab of TAC (screenshot below).

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Let's Talk Parks

JULY 15, 2020

She received the Distinguished Service award in 2019 from the Southern Illinois University Park and Recreation Department. She was 2018-2019 Chair of the American Society of Association Executives (ASAE) Ethics Committee. Debbie: My gosh, 2020 has been so difficult for our country, right! We have about 4,000 attendees each year.

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Death and Taxes

JULY 21, 2021

It is no surprise that Florida city managers placed the forecasts for the pandemic’s impact on local revenues as the top priority, as local governments are revenue-driven entities. His scholarship focuses on state and local public finance, budgeting and financial management. Guest Contributors: Hai (David) Guo and Can Chen.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

While this represents an increase of 24% since 2019 and a significant 1.1 Data-powered efficient energy management will play an important role in 5G network operations. 5G emerges to tackle the digital divide. The ITU estimates that approximately 5.3 billion people – or 66% of the world’s population – are using the Internet in 2022.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 20, 2023

RTC also runs a bikeshare program, manages certain intelligent transportation systems functions, and a number of game day sports related express bus services. The SDX--the Strip and Downtown Express --provides similar services to The Deuce but a faster trip, because of limited stops. Likely it is used more by employees than visitors.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Although we did send the Yellow Line down that way, but not as far, to Fort Belvoir. -- " A "Transformational Projects Action Plan" for the Metrorail Blue Line ," 2020 To deal with this planning wise, it's important to think about intra-district versus inter-county transit service. Extending the Yellow Line south on Rte.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 26, 2024

There has always been tension in park management over active versus passive use. In business districts, often parks are managed by business improvement districts (" A business improvement district for a park? Physical activity was at its lowest at weekends during winter. Activation. Hey, it just might work ," amNY ).

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 31, 2024

Basilica of Saint Mary Above Minerva, Vatican City Stained glass windows at the First Presbyterian Church of Stamford, Connecticut Incorporating public art into park facilities -- " Artful playscapes ," Public Art Review -- " Integrating multiple amenities into public projects: cherry trees along the path at the University of Toronto Scarborough paths/trails (..)

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