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The GSE Public-Private Hybrid Model Flunks Again: This Time It’s the Federal Home Loan Bank System (Part 1)

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

The private persona of a GSE is that it is owned and capitalized by the private sector and operated as a for-profit company. As an example of their lobbying power, in 2004 and 2005 the George W. Additionally, the GSEs did not commercially operate like efficient and competitive business organizations.

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Community building versus economic development

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Cities cost money to operate. WMATA's 2005 study, Development-Related Ridership Survey , found significant car trip reduction associated with the buildings in Metrorail station catchment areas, even in areas outside the core. Community building versus revitalization.

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Metrorail Silver Line phase two opening this week

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Washington Post , July 13, 2003. Later, I realized that along the lines of thinking about transit as a network operating at different scales I propose a metropolitan scale as the foundation, usually heavy rail and railroad, and then center city and suburban (sub)networks within it. Adding a Tysons tram system to that list.

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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

Use of Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Tumblr, blogs and photo sharing sites illustrate the flexibility of ICT platforms in supporting collective action and social movements while the mediums themselves are both inexpensive to operate and instantaneous; multiple messages can be conveyed clearly and consistently over the course of movement evolution.