Partnership for Public Service
MAY 16, 2024
Making a mark in the federal government In January 2023, Natasha Shah Syed was appointed as a political appointee in the General Services Administration. In her role, she has been providing policy, operations, strategic communications and outreach support to the GSA’s regional administrators on the West Coast and in the Washington, D.C.,
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.). And they never functioned the way I suggested (e.g., Vision Zero.
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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)
MARCH 23, 2023
On February 28th, 2023, Mark Willis, the NYU Furman Center’s Senior Policy Fellow, testified at a City Council Oversight Hearing on Residential Conversions of Office Buildings. The City has traditionally made that allocation by providing some property tax relief in exchange for developers building and operating affordable housing.
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
NOVEMBER 20, 2023
Many shifted to take out operations. Restaurants are still closing in 2023. But hands down, the easiest bread to bake comes from the recipes by Jim Lahey of the Sullivan Street Bakery in New York City, first popularized by an article in the New York Times in 2006 --although it took me til 2020 to finally start baking it regularly.
The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)
MARCH 4, 2024
The private persona of a GSE is that it is owned and capitalized by the private sector and operated as a for-profit company. Additionally, the GSEs did not commercially operate like efficient and competitive business organizations. However, F&F launched a major lobbying effort and successfully defeated the legislation in Congress.
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
JANUARY 19, 2024
Around 2006 it "repaired" Thomas Circle, which decades before had been cut through with more road travel lanes. Again DC has a great example as c. 2000 it was national best practice in terms of improving streetscapes in commercial districts, significantly boosting success of those areas. They remade it into a full park circle.
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
MARCH 1, 2024
To its credit the Bridge Park has helped develop a land trust, but I don't see it doing that much (" Scattered site buying of houses in high cost neighborhoods doesn't seem to be a good way to develop scale for a community land trust ," 2023). -- Douglass Community Land Trust The fourth is using the bridge to leverage arts and culture.
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