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School district wide retention and improvement initiatives: Kalamazoo Promise

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

They created the Hennepin Works initiative as an infrastructure investment program to do just that ( "A County and Its Cities: the Impact of Hennepin Community Works ," Journal of Urban Affairs, 2008). Louis revitalization planning in the face of population shrinkage " (2023) Later they added light rail transit to the program.

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The GSE Public-Private Hybrid Model Flunks Again: This Time It’s the Federal Home Loan Bank System (Part 1)

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

11 This core flaw of GSE design was described by then-Secretary of the Treasury Henry Paulson when F&F were placed into conservatorship in 2008. ” The Pre-2008 Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac F&F were relatively small prior to the Savings & Loan (S&L) Crisis of 1989, having only a single-digit market share of funding U.S.

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Updating the best practice elements of revitalization to include elements 7 and 8 | Transformational Projects Action Planning at a large scale

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Around 2006 it "repaired" Thomas Circle, which decades before had been cut through with more road travel lanes. I will say that adaptive management is a lot like my old "Action Planning" approach, which uses the design method, and dates back to 2008 and observation of best practice then. Transformational Projects Action Planning.

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Gaps in Parks Master Planning, Part Six | Art(s) in the Park(s) as a comprehensive program

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Nina Berman , Homeland Security Advisory Billboard, Country Club Hills, IL, 2008, from the Homeland series. Mexico border between 1993 and 2006. Celebrate Brooklyn is an annual free concert series at the Lena Horne Bandshell in Prospect Park.

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Gaps in Parks Master Planning, Part Six | Art(s) in the Park(s) as a comprehensive program

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Nina Berman , Homeland Security Advisory Billboard, Country Club Hills, IL, 2008, from the Homeland series. Mexico border between 1993 and 2006. Celebrate Brooklyn is an annual free concert series at the Lena Horne Bandshell in Prospect Park.