Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 21, 2022

And I wrote more pieces over the years. -- " Every litter bit hurts ," 2005 -- " Litter revisited ," 2006 Photo by Inked78. It was actually a great thing to do for creating visibility for the organization, for getting a handle on the problem, and for volunteer recruitment. 700 block of H Street NE.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JULY 4, 2023

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. First, in the early years of the blog I wrote a lot of pieces about transit marketing and doing a better job of it.

2008 52

2008 2013 Budgeting Transportation 52

Open Access Government - Technology News

JUNE 21, 2022

When I think about how things have changed, I have to cast my mind back to 2005 when as a Civil Servant, I co-authored ‘Better Practice Guide- lines for Government Contact Centres.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

I wrote about Boulder's in 2005, " Now I know why Boulder's Pearl Street Mall is the exception that proves the rule about the failures of pedestrian malls." College towns in Burlington, Vermont, Madison, Wisconsin, Boulder, Colorado and Charlottesville, Virginia are probably the most successful examples. Flickr photo by Let Ideas Compete.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

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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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

OCTOBER 18, 2022

The first study, published in presentation format by Freddie Mac’s Market Insights Group, is titled “ Manufactured Housing 2022: An Untapped Affordable Housing Solution ,” and represents the 2022 Manufactured Housing Survey. Information on the North Carolina Abandoned Manufactured Home program can be found here.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 21, 2024

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. The monocentric subnetwork of the DC Metrorail system serves the core of DC.

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Economic Development Development Parks And Recreation Housing 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Create regularized transportation funding mechanisms for the metropolitan area and region that transcend individual operators like WMATA (" DC area transit commission board member thinks he has a brilliant idea on how to fund Metrorail: sales taxes ," 2022) Network improvement program 1. Extending the Silver Line to Leesburg.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MARCH 10, 2023

The FHFA then indicated that it ended this delay and began to employ the newer, higher capital requirement approach beginning in 2022. Individual GSE public financial disclosures do, however, indicate there may have been a modest increase during 2022 (i.e., What about the average G-fee in 2022? percent to 0.49

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 3, 2024

Doubling down on place values " (2022) The Economics of Uniqueness: Investing in Historic City Cores and Cultural Heritage Assets for Sustainable Development DC (" Bowser, business leaders pitch $400M plan to fix D.C.’s

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Elected Officials Public Safety Management Housing 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 18, 2024

Inadequacies in school transportation planning ," 2022 -- School Walk and Bike Routes: A Guide for Planning and Improving Walk and Bike to School Options for Students -- Safe Routes to School program , Washington State -- City of Tacoma SRTS program , including SRTS Action Plan -- Starkville in Motion A failed job interview with DDOT.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 19, 2023

In 2009 and a couple times afterwards, I said it was necessary for WMATA to rebuild the regional/metropolitan consensus about support for transit.

2006 52

2006 2004 Transportation 2009 52

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MAY 31, 2023

This was described on the one hand as unfair, since it relied on overcharging low-risk borrowers “who had played by all the rules” and, on the other hand, as unduly incenting bad loans at the GSEs (by charging too little for high-risk loans) in a quasi-replay of the lead up to the mortgage bubble of 2005 to 2008. ” [link].

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