The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MARCH 11, 2024

It is considered one of America’s government- sponsored enterprises (GSEs), i.e., public-private hybrid corporations created by Congress and authorized to engage only in a narrowly-tailored set of activities. It did so, for example, in 2004 to cover the budget year 2003, when its estimate was $3.2 billion for fiscal 2024.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 19, 2024

Over time, as I wrote more about it, I realized it should be applied at multiple scales (" A wrinkle in thinking about the Transformational Projects Action Planning approach: Great public buildings aren't just about design, but what they do ," 2022). (1) The city did a plan for the area around 2003. Social Marketing 3.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 1, 2024

But even before that I went back and forth on it. Was it merely DC trying to copy other unusual creative infrastructure endeavors (at the same time there was an attempt to create a similar bridge in London, under then Mayor Boris Johnson, " An absurd vanity project for our age – Boris Johnson’s garden bridge ," Guardian ).

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 21, 2024

I make this point often that planning engagements are set up to fail from the outset because planners have to achieve both city (or county wide goals like economic development) as well as neighborhood specific objectives, while residents tend to take responsibility only for the latter. It's three stories, but there is parking for every unit.

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