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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

The Washington Post reports on a press conference in Anacostia, the most economically lagging area in DC, where the Mayor discussed improvements in the area, in association with a new building for the Department of Housing and Community Development, which was already there, in a not so old building (" After decades of disinvestment, D.C.’s

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Parking space requirements, car versus moped, Harmon's Supermarket Brickyard, Salt Lake City

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Also see: -- " Further updates to the Sustainable Mobility Platform Framework ," 2018 There's been a lot of reporting of late on communities reducing parking requirements, and a new book by Henry Grabar (" Book Review: 'Paved Paradise,' by Henry Grabar ," New York Times). But Donald Shoup's High Cost of Free Parking was published in 2005.

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2023 Year-End Boxscore Charts, Billboard Magazine

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

about the importance of CapitalOne Arena on the development of Downtown's East End. Fort Worth Star-Telegram ). 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

See the following: Manufactured Housing, Modular Housing and Zoning (2020); Abandoned Manufactured Homes: What’s Next (2018); Hidden in Plain Sight: Some Next Steps (2018); Hidden in Plain Sight (2018); Marco Polo and Mobile Home Spaces (2017); Mobile Homes and Property Taxes (2010); Transforming Trailers into Assets (2005).

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Covid-19: Elements of a Scenario

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

It is now more than ten years since there was a general push to induce countries to plan for pandemics (WHO 2005). US Homeland Security Council 2005, UK Government 2008), while in others it did not. It is also important to remember that the Covid-19 pandemic occurs in the context of other developments. Spinney, L.

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Pathology digitization and the fight against cancer

Google Public Sector

In 2018, we published a peer-reviewed paper in the Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine about how we applied deep learning to improve breast cancer diagnostic accuracy, based on gigapixel-sized pathology slides of lymph nodes from de-identified patients. During the transition, the DoD asked the U.S.

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