Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 27, 2024

The reality is that government buildings don't generate a lot of spillover business development, as I discussed in another entry. government offices, DGS said. Notably, most of the newest developments are city properties--the new DCHD building and a building for the Department of Health. The city will continue to pay $1.46

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Open Access Government - Technology News

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Open Access Government interviews Lin Sun on the significance of Ada Lovelace Day and what it means for women in STEM around the globe. While I was at IBM from 2005-2014, I was stuck at a job level for 10 years, with many hours of overtime, including some weekends working from the office.

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Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Since the start of the crisis, I have constantly affirmed that the key to understanding the effects of this pandemic is the UK Government's failure to give adequate weight to emergency planning and management (Alexander 2020a, 2020b). There were major exercises on pandemics in 2005, 2007 and 2016. Britain is in a state of emergency.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

The question of how best to fund Metro is an important one that requires thought leadership and extensive community input. It begins with “What do we want Metro to be?” My point is you ask for money when you are wildly successful and everyone is looking to join the bandwagon, not when you are failing, in crisis, and you have few friends.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 21, 2024

A problem on Market East and in Philadelphia, they said, is the city government only contemplates the future in response to developers’ wishes. 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.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

APRIL 29, 2024

However, if these costs reflect distorted markets where normal price competition has been subverted, then it is absolutely appropriate and reasonable for the government to intervene and improve the situation. In 2007, the Government Accountability Office (GAO), a non-partisan research arm of Congress, studied title insurance.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MARCH 10, 2023

The average guarantee fee (G-fee) of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, the two government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs), who currently finance about half of the nearly $13 trillion of outstanding first-lien single-family mortgages in the country, 1 is among the most closely-watched numbers by housing finance policymakers and the mortgage lending industry.

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