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Downtown St. Paul needs 20,000 more people to thrive | implications for urban revitalization in the post covid city

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Also see " What would be a "Transformational Projects Action Plan" for DC's cultural ecosystem ," 2019. The Downtown Public Realm Plan is online now. From DC's Downtown Public Realm Plan.

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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 2019, the average visit time was 13 minutes, 4 seconds. In fact, the effort was led by a former sporting goods executive, who put together a customer service management team.

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Disasters: Knowledge and Information in the New Age of Anomie

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

The result is a communication process which has been termed chronic contagion (Pomerantsev 2019). Vast resources are now devoted to distorting the picture, and all three superpowers are busy utilising them (Druzin and Gordon 2018, Merrin 2019, Rudick and Dannels 2019). Journal of Emergency Management 8(6): 15-27.

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The Road Not Taken | a response to a letter to the editor in the Washington Post about DC, traffic deaths and traffic safety

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

. -- " Yard sign, Person running for District Six Council in Salt Lake using traffic safety as a campaign issue ," 2023 Transportation management districts. for Downtown, H Street NE, Capitol Hill, etc.). Vision Zero.

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To and from origin stations can be difficult: More on the Silver Line and intra-neighborhood transit (tertiary network)

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The transit network concept I worked out is based on how Arlington County, Virginia, in their 2005 Trasnportation Plan, defined a Primary and a Secondary Transit Network. Then and now, jitneys (like ride hailing) are often seen as a substitute and competitor to public transit. Tertiary Network concept.

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Towards a Taxonomy of Disasters

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

There is currently a move to extirpate the term 'natural disasters' on the grounds that disasters by definition are not natural events (UNDRR 2019, p. 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. Necci 2019.

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Crain's Chicago Business: Crain's Forum on Rebranding Chicago

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Not as scintillating as the Boston Globe series (" Blueprints for a downtown Boston | Boston Globe "), but at least the business community is concerned about reputation and brand and identity management. From destination managers to city brand managers to community asset managers. Downtown brings $2.3