Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 20, 2024

Note that this was written before it was announced that the Washington Wizards and Capitals would be moving to Alexandria, Virginia.

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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. 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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Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

MARCH 15, 2020

The coup de grâce was the response to Hurricane Katrina in August 2005. Perhaps the answer is that it is too difficult to plan a system that has been decimated, after eight years of Draconian budget cuts. It is a pity, as the United States have lost the lead in this field–if they ever had it. It was a model of inefficiency and failure.

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Masters in Public Administration

AUGUST 30, 2011

Read them to learn how a city budget works, how townhall meetings are conducted, and even to see the inner workings of a police department. Rybak was elected Mayor of Minneapolis in 2001 and was re-elected again in 2005 to serve another term. He was also reelected in 2005 and again in 2009. Top City Mayor Blogs. Mayor Slay.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MARCH 4, 2024

7 Additionally, GSE subsidies and privileges are crafted to largely avoid showing up as a federal budget expenditure, thus avoiding competing with other priorities for scarce tax dollars. As an example of their lobbying power, in 2004 and 2005 the George W.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 3, 2024

One of my earliest pieces " Town-City branding or "We are all destination managers now" " (2005) was later expanded into the concept of a city's elected officials and stakeholders are its brand managers in commercial district revitalization framework plans I wrote in 2008 for Cambridge, Maryland, and Brunswick, Georgia.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 24, 2023

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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