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2023 Year-End Boxscore Charts, Billboard Magazine

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

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. Look at all the people going to a San Francisco Giants baseball game, and taking transit. Mike Kepka, San Francisco Chronicle, 2002.

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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. Second, during the 2008 crash, I got an email from an activist in response to all the budget and service cuts faced by transit systems.

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

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

They need to be thinking about and planning for how transit strengthens and improves communities, rather than just thinking about transit in terms of modes or engineering or budgets.

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Current GSE Guarantee Fees Are Too Low to Be Consistent with Regulatory Capital: Does This Mean a Large Increase Is Coming?

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

budget calculations but intentionally set things up so that the broader financial marketplace believed the government had an obligation to never let the two companies default on their debt; 15 this allowed the marketplace to largely ignore measures of GSE financial strength, in particular their capital ratios. See [link].

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