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Improving the food system related host/ess gifts for Thanksgiving

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The first time I wrote this post was in 2016, but I've never done it early enough in the month, when you can actually procure an item in time, without paying for expedited shipping. ChopChop Family is an initiative promoting healthier eating for families, and greater engagement by children in preparing meals.

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Revisiting the 11th Street Bridge Park project as an opportunity rather than a folly: a new revitalization agenda for East of the River, DC

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Many years ago Leimert Park in Los Angeles was featured in the Washington Post as a black-business district (" Los Angeles's Black Pride: Taking In the Retro Vibe of Leimert Park ," places , 2006). I visited it back then and wasn't impressed.

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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)

In fact, an industry consensus emerged around 2016-7 that F&F have been operating far better in conservatorship in areas such as technology, customer service, and risk management than they ever did prior to 2008. 20] The Federal Reserve Bank’s combined balance sheet in 2006 was just $.81 81 trillion.

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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

Music in the American Wild ( webpage , Eastman School of Music) was a program where new music compositions were commissioned to play in 12 National Parks, in honor of the 100th anniversary of the park system in 2016. Mexico border between 1993 and 2006. And there were alternatives. Security and public art.

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The Road Not Taken | a response to a letter to the editor in the Washington Post about DC, traffic deaths and traffic safety

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

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. How to measure and benchmark traffic deaths? The issues are unchanging. Government has a bias for inaction.