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2023 Year-End Boxscore Charts, Billboard Magazine

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

2023 Year-End Boxscore Charts , Billboard Magazine Top 40 Tours Top 30 Boxscores Top 10 Stadiums Top 25 Venues (cap 15,001 or more) Top 10 Venues (cap 10,001 to 15,000) Top 10 Venues (cap 5,001 to 10,000) Top 10 Venues (cap 5,000 or less) Top 10 Promoters Top Tours by Genre; For years, I'd argued with Alex B. 1 venue in the world."

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Community building versus economic development

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

A problem on Market East and in Philadelphia, they said, is the city government only contemplates the future in response to developers’ wishes. Philadelphia 76ers ," 2023 ). Plus they have a bias against development to begin with, think developers are monsters because they make profits, etc.

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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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Meet the featured customer speakers for the Worldwide Public Sector Innovation Talk at re:Invent 2023

AWS Public Sector Blog

Prior to that, Johnson served as the director of administrative services at the California State Board of Equalization from 2005 to 2007 and held various positions at the California Department of Food and Agriculture from 1989 to 2005. He is also concurrently the senior advisor of the Singapore Economic Development Board.

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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). At the time, the average visit to a BMV office lasted 30 minutes, but Daniels knew that it often took (and felt) much longer. “I

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

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Is The Wisdom of Crowds Prone to Exaggeration? Evidence from Metaculus

The Lowe Down

We’re all natural forecasters with constant incentive to try to predict the future, be it in the pursuit of self-interested outcomes, or in the search for answers pertaining the future of humanity such as the development of emerging technologies, geo-political risk-analysis, or global development.

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