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Updating the best practice elements of revitalization to include elements 7 and 8 | Transformational Projects Action Planning at a large scale

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Around 2006 it "repaired" Thomas Circle, which decades before had been cut through with more road travel lanes. The city did a plan for the area around 2003. Again DC has a great example as c. 2000 it was national best practice in terms of improving streetscapes in commercial districts, significantly boosting success of those areas.

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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)

In 2003, Franklin Raines, the highly visible CEO of Fannie Mae at the time, received compensation of $17.1 11] The history makes clear that the various GSEs often engage in lobbying and advocacy for favorable changes to legislation and regulation, potentially biasing the outcome. [12] 24 Excessive executive compensation. 81 trillion.

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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

Many years ago Leimert Park in Los Angeles was featured in the Washington Post as a black-business district (" Los Angeles's Black Pride: Taking In the Retro Vibe of Leimert Park ," places , 2006). Organizing around the water is too limited given the issues. I visited it back then and wasn't impressed. s Black arts scene ," Post ).

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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

Social media tends to be decentralized, nonmarket, peer-produced, nonproprietary, open-sourced, commons-based, and provide free or inexpensive access and distribution (Benkler, 2006). Because social media can increase the perceived social and public equity, users are more likely to engage in active participation. O’Hara (2010, p.