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2023 Year-End Boxscore Charts, Billboard Magazine

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Yesterday, my SmartNews feed was on fire, with so many great articles. 1 venue in the world." I argued it would have happened anyway. said "no, the Arena has had significant impact." The reality is that he was right (" More sports: sports-anchored entertainment districts and LA Live." I was too parochial.

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Indiana BMV Builds on Three Pillars to Drive up CX

GovLoop

When Mitch Daniels took office as Indiana’s Governor in 2005, one of the top items on his agenda was reforming the Bureau of Motor Vehicles (BMV). In 2018, the bureau made a big training push, updating curricula and ensuring that all employees received training in their first two weeks on the job, according to the BMV’s 2018 annual report.

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CED and Affordable Housing: How Does Manufactured Housing Fit In?

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

The complexities noted here are compounded by the fact that tremendous growth and affordable housing needs are in urban areas, while the vast majority of this type of housing is found in rural areas (see the great maps on housing shortage and surplus found in this recent New York Times article ).

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I wonder if Mayor Fenty hadn't dissolved the Anacostia Waterfront Initiative in 2007, merging it into another city agency, if development would have happened faster?

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

From the article: Administration officials see the influx of workers as an economic boost and part of a broader effort to scale up critical health infrastructure in a place where life expectancy and health outcomes lag behind neighborhoods to the west.

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Desperate times sometimes lead to a more marketing-oriented guise: WMATA/Metrorail | Bonus: WMATA's financial crisis

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Now a goodly amount of that is encapsulated in " Branding's (NOT) all you need for transit " (2018), but old pieces like " Making Transit Sexy " (2005), make the point too, less sophisticatedly. From the article : Metro rides are free after 5 p.m. Tuesday Officials suggest taking Metro to get to the Mall. Starting at 5 p.m.

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Towards a Taxonomy of Disasters

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

Field 2018). International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction , Article 101163 Marulanda, M.C., Caffrey 2005. For example, business continuity management has a slightly different set of priorities which induces it to change the emphasis among triggering factors (Elliott et al. Journal of Emergency Management 11(1): 59-72.

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Transit as a formula for local economic success and improvements in regional quality of life

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

There is an article at Building Salt Lake, " Why isn’t Utah Transit Authority supporting the Rio Grande Plan? ," opining about why the Utah Transit Authority isn't all in on the concept of reviving Rio Grande Station as the "central station" for Downtown railroad and transit service.