Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Note that the original PL series on Silver Spring did discuss an intra core shuttle system to complement their parking structures and to allow for converting Fenton Avenue to a sustainable mobility corridor. But I didn't extend this tertiary transit concept to the transit sheds of other PL stations. Tertiary Network concept.

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Transportation 2019 2016 2017 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

People like me have been saying this for years, that WMATA needs to invest in its relationship with area residents as customers, riders, funders (as taxpayers), and supporters of transit. -- " Making Transit Sexy ," 2005 (!) -- " More on Metro and rethinking transit marketing ," 2006 -- " Helping Government Learn ," 2009 -- " Transit, stations, and (..)

2009 52

2009 2015 2016 2017 52

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

MARCH 15, 2020

Since the stand-on-your-own-two-feet privations of the Second World War, there has been a gradual and sustained retreat from personal respomsability in favour of leaving the work to officialdom–and blaming officialdom when there are shortcomings in its response. The coup de grâce was the response to Hurricane Katrina in August 2005.

2005 52

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

In 2005, I served on the advisory committee for the International Public Markets Conference which covered both DC and Baltimore that year, led a tour, etc. I first proposed to the city creating TMDs in 2005/2006. It should support sustainable modes (biking, walking, transit improvements) as well as parking. They still haven't.

Nonprofit 52

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MAY 10, 2023

But there isn't a rush to expand it, or to create conditions where sustainable modes are first choice for getting around. DC needs to be much more active when it comes to TDM (it does have some requirements), including the creation of Transportation Demand Management Districts (I suggested this for DC starting in 2005!!!!!!!!)

Transportation 52

Transportation Management Sustainability Coordinator 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

DC does not understand its "unique selling proposition" or "core competency" is being transit- and sustainable mobility-centric. This should have been done as part of BRAC planning, something I first suggested in 2005.) Extending the Yellow Line south on Rte. Integrate the long distance commuter bus network into a unified system.

Elected Officials 52

Elected Officials Transportation 2011 Sustainability 52

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

OCTOBER 18, 2022

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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Housing 2018 2022 2005 81

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 24, 2023

Admittedly, many transportation agencies are investing a lot in urban design, livable streets, sustainable mobility, etc. But even in the best agencies, a lot of the time sustainable mobility and urban design elements are overlooked, or removed from plans because of the cost. Mayors as systems integrators.

Transportation 52

Transportation Economic Development Sustainability Development 52

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

Elected Officials 52

Elected Officials Public Safety Management Housing 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 18, 2024

Since 2005 or 2006 I have been recommending that the city create Traffic Management Districts as a way to coordinate transportation management and improvements at the commercial district scale (e.g. for Downtown, H Street NE, Capitol Hill, etc.). Mapping pedestrian, bicycle, transit and car accidents Lots of links within each section.

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Public Policy Blog

JANUARY 3, 2014

As more of the world becomes connected online, revolutionaries across the globe are being empowered like never before although not all are successful as sustaining the movement the use of information communication technologies (ICT) are critical in developing and executing modern social movements.

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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.

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