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The unintended consequences of converting office buildings to housing: the need for public safety; schools; amenities

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The Complete Guide to City Living , 2004, Retire Downtown: The Lifestyle Destination for Active Retirees and Empty Nesters , 2006, both by Kyle Ezell), but mostly in weak market cities where the office districts were depopulated by business. People don't want to live in fear. cleanliness. Center cities can be pretty dirty.

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State of the Nation - a UK Perspective on Covid-19

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

There were major exercises on pandemics in 2005, 2007 and 2016. No country other than the UK has spontaneously abandoned its basic law on emergency management (in this case the Civil Contingencies Act of 2004). Pandemic Influenza 18-to 20 October 2016. Plans were made in the UK in 2006, 2008, 2011 and 2014.

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University of Utah University Neighborhood Partners program and community revitalization in West side Salt Lake City/County

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Partnerships target university and community outcomes , all feeding into the long-term goal of decreasing barriers to higher education, but also focused on place-based community improvements. This has been the case partly because many universities, like Yale in New Haven, Penn in Philadelphia, University of Chicago on the South Side, etc.

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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

What if the park sponsored daily educational enrichment activities for the young people in nearby neighborhoods? The Urban Agenda calls for the unprecedented alignment of the entire agency by linking the work of national parks and programs to advance conservation, education, recreation, and economic development in urban areas.

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Milwaukee’s three-pronged strategy to reduce teen pregnancy: An interview with Bevan Baker, Commissioner of Health, City of Milwaukee, and Nicole Angresano, United Way of Greater Milwaukee – Episode #118

Andy Feldman's Gov Innovator podcast

The use of evidence-based sex education. Bevan Baker has been the Commissioner of Health in Milwaukee since 2004. It has been recognized as a model of community collaboration, including by the White House Council for Community Solutions. The three main prongs of the strategy are: An aggressive advertising campaign targeted to teens.

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The Social Media President – @POTUS final #SOTU

Public Policy Blog

The Chief Digital Officer Jason Goldman for the Obama administration published to his Medium account “[the] American people will see a multi-platform streaming and social broadcast of the State of the Union that reflects the ways people experience live events in 2016. Bush in 2004. We’ll be reaching people where they are?—?and

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Community building versus economic development

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The other element that was educational for me was the velocity of change resulting from the new station. But the addition of this particular station increased the velocity of development in those areas by at least 10 years. ," Washington Business Journal , 2016). Velocity of positive economic change from public investment.