Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 19, 2023

And the GMU campus at Virginia Square in Arlington, Virginia, which has the policy and law schools, and other programs. DC's planning function and capacity has diminished with each mayor since Anthony Williams left office in 2006. I find DC's planning around higher education to be pretty disappointing. But that's not a unique failing.

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Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Plans were made in the UK in 2006, 2008, 2011 and 2014. No country other than the UK has spontaneously abandoned its basic law on emergency management (in this case the Civil Contingencies Act of 2004). There were major exercises on pandemics in 2005, 2007 and 2016. The plans were not connected to anything.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

APRIL 29, 2024

For the buyer, closing costs vary significantly by state, reflecting different state regulations and laws. The ten-year average from 2014 to 2023 was 6.4 Of note, during the height of the bubble (2005 and 2006), the average downpayment by an FTHB actually decreased to just two percent.

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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.). Sometimes there are issues, admittedly, but mostly it's recklessness.

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