Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JUNE 27, 2024

Perceptions of public safety are shaped by cleanliness, the presence of graffiti, etc. -- " Updating the post The "soft side" of commercial district revitalization ," 2006/2016 Decades ago, DC used to pay people to clean the streets of commercial districts, but that program ended when the city was in bankruptcy. This article is interesting.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 7, 2022

The Complete Guide to City Living , 2004, Retire Downtown: The Lifestyle Destination for Active Retirees and Empty Nesters , 2006, both by Kyle Ezell), but mostly in weak market cities where the office districts were depopulated by business. Center cities can be pretty dirty. schools (and daycare). just east of Yonge St.,

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MARCH 23, 2023

Two main policies help loosen zoning restrictions and provide financing, Article 1 Chapter 5 of the City’s Zoning Code and 2021’s Housing Our Neighbors with Dignity Act (HONDA), respectively. The regulation targeted buildings built before 1961 in these districts and buildings built before 1977 in Lower Manhattan.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JUNE 13, 2023

The school district had been shrinking in enrollment for more than a decade, and in 2006 they introduced a new program, free college tuition for graduates. But it hasn’t been a cure-all ," KG From the second article: Starting with the KPS Class of 2006, The Promise has paid about $200 million in college tuition for more than 7,600 students.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 11, 2024

From the first article: In collaboration with Drury University's Art of Space, led by assistant professor Gerard Nadeau, the museum is erecting the outdoor House of Art(s) on the northwest corner of the museum's grounds. Again, I think this is community building. But that isn't revitalization, and again ikely that's not a goal of the museum.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 21, 2022

And I wrote more pieces over the years. -- " Every litter bit hurts ," 2005 -- " Litter revisited ," 2006 Photo by Inked78. From the article: The community interest company Planet Patrol created an app for people to record the litter they find and remove. One of my earliest blog entries was on litter, as a result of those efforts.

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A Library Writer's Blog

JANUARY 5, 2024

eblip/index.php/ EBLIP/article/view/30479 Evidence Based Library and Information Practice (EBLIP), a peer-reviewed, open access journal published quarterly since 2006, seeks to fill the position of Production Editor. Supervising the Editorial Intern to ensure proper formatting and accurate metadata for each article.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 11, 2024

From the article: In a news release sent out Wednesday, officials said that the organizations’ Boards of Directors will meet on May 1 to start “months-long discussions about how to efficiently provide, fund, and govern public transit.” inter-city) transit planning ," 2011). If it wasn't forthcoming, only then cut service.

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Public Policy Blog

JUNE 16, 2013

at with opportunity for direct “horizontal communication” between network peers (Schmidtchen, 2006) and as I would also point out, leaders inspire social action or other participatory behavior. These complex networks are optimal when fully connected and ?at Mergel, Ines and Greeves, Bill (2013). San Francisco, CA:Jossey Bass.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MARCH 4, 2024

3 The release of the FHFA report has also sparked a flurry of articles, op-eds, and think tank reports either supporting or countering some or all the recommendations. This two-part article argues that the root cause of their need for reform is a fundamental flaw in Congress’ design of GSEs. 81 trillion.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JULY 10, 2023

The Washington Post has an article, " D.C.’s Chevy Chase Community Center, Washington, DC. Obviously, DC itself has successful examples of doing this, although more with replacing the civic asset rather than including it going forward.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MAY 13, 2024

And when thinking about writing about it, I remembered a bus initiative back in 2006 too. When I first saw coverage I thought, "what about the 2017" initiative, although granted it was before covid. But of course, conditions have changed greatly since then.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 19, 2022

From the article: A damning, 72-page report the agency authored portrays a housing authority in disarray and at risk of defaulting on its agreement with the federal government. From the article: The U.S. Housing Authority’s leadership is failing, HUD report says ," Washington Post ). Housing Authority better ," Post ).

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 19, 2024

From another NYT piece, " What We Learned From Bogotá’s Buses ," about the article: That’s a lesson I took away from my reporting. Around 2006 it "repaired" Thomas Circle, which decades before had been cut through with more road travel lanes. TransMilenio bus routes. Photo by Julio Plaza for the New York Times.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Proposed Gatineau-Ottawa transit loop. Flickr photo by Clagmaster of the Bilbao Tram leaving the Guggenheim Museum.

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Masters in Public Administration

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

Jeff has kept the blog going since 2006. You can also get articles on pay, news, employment, and more. There are loads of blog entries on students and tourism. Jeff Pomeranz : This is the blog for the city manager of West Des Moines, City, Iowa. Business was the subject of his latest post. What Does a City Manager Do? :

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 16, 2025

Deb Lindsey/For The Washington Post) The Washington Post has an article, " Its just not sustainable: D.C. emphasis added] The article touches on drops in revenues. From the article: Dining out at certain restaurants has become so expensive, many customers now view it as a treat, affordable only on special occasions.

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Barrett & Greene

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

The following new suggestions of books, reports, articles and presentations about performance management come from David Ammons, Maria Aristigueta, Marc Holzer, Michael Jacobson, Andrew Kleine, and Aaron P. We were happy to see that his recent recommendations sparked enthusiasm from other well-known experts in the performance field.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

APRIL 29, 2024

Part 1 of this article will address several questions to lay the groundwork for a broader discussion about closing and related transaction costs in Part 2. For the sake of simplicity, this article will mainly focus on lender’s title insurance. First, it is a significant contributor to buyer-paid closing costs. 10] See [link]. [11]

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

I noticed an article that Baltimore County, Maryland is on the verge of passing a plastic bag ban. There is an article from Fox45 in Baltimore that states: " Law enforcement expert says liquor stores are hotspots for crime in Baltimore City." DC did that in 2009. increase in violent crimes. In the early 2000s!

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

These two recent entries recount many of the pieces as step by step I developed a more comprehensive approach to arts-based revitalization. -- " Lack of a system breeds more of the same: Source Theater, Washington DC, up for sale 2006, 2024 ," (2024) -- " The town (or place) that art saved(?): it's no wonder I have written a lot about crime.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 30, 2023

From the second article: The goals of the future hospital, he said, are to provide meaningful economic impact to the west side by employing residents who live near the facility, and to improve the health of a city that faces lower life expectancy and higher rates of serious conditions compared with the overall county.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

From the article: The capital improvement program reflects the region’s commitment to maintaining and improving your community’s $100 billion transit asset. The question of how best to fund Metro is an important one that requires thought leadership and extensive community input.

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Government Technology Insider

JANUARY 26, 2023

In a recent article from Future Healthcare Today , our colleagues explored how the U.S. Watch Webcast Move to the Cloud The cloud has expanded capabilities and opened new possibilities since it became publicly available in 2006. This is leading to improvements in user experience and healthcare access.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 1, 2024

From the article: Surveying the 30-plus public gardens, arboretums, historical landscapes, and support groups that comprise Greater Philadelphia Gardens, consulting firm Econsult Solutions added up the digits and found an economic impact of $256 million a year, a big boon for the tourism industry. I visited it back then and wasn't impressed.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 20, 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. He compiled recipes into My Bread: The Revolutionary No-Work, No-Knead Method.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

I first proposed to the city creating TMDs in 2005/2006. An article, " West Side Market to transition to nonprofit management ," in the Cleveland Plan Dealer reports that the West Side Market there is moving to nonprofit management, while the city will still own the building. They still haven't. I mentioned it over time.

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Public Policy Blog

JANUARY 3, 2014

Social media tends to be decentralized, nonmarket, peer-produced, nonproprietary, open-sourced, commons-based, and provide free or inexpensive access and distribution (Benkler, 2006). This incredible exponential growth of the movement was likely a consequence of the movement’s decentralization (Brafman & Beckstrom, 2006).

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 19, 2023

That's why I have to laugh at the article in today's Post about USC, " D.C. From the article: District officials have spent months figuring out how to counter negative economic trends spurred by emptied offices downtown. DC's planning function and capacity has diminished with each mayor since Anthony Williams left office in 2006.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 21, 2025

The Buy the Mother F **g Building Already series of articles about how arts groups (independent retail and nonprofits) should buy their own buildings to protect their interests.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 21, 2025

-- article Only 3.1% I've suggested DC create TMDs since about 2006. As the Bloomberg article makes clear, relying on a car is extremely expensive. of US adults use public transportation to get to work, according to 2022 data from the Census Bureau, down from 5% in 2019. in 2022 as more people reported working from home.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

APRIL 15, 2025

This includes correcting for charter defects and, as will be discussed in Part 4 of this article series, ensuring the implementation of market-changing reforms made over the years to F&F’s operations. [19] trillion circa 2006 and became the source of most F&F profits. That portfolio peaked at over $1.5

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

I think I was ahead of many of those scholars. -- " Updating the mobilityshed / mobility shed concept ," (2008, originally 2006) 2. At a planning meeting in 2006, I made the point that bus shelters are key marketing touchpoints for the transit system, that their design and upkeep defines the system.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 14, 2025

Examples would be Shell Oil in Nigeria or Kennecott Copper in Chile, Years ago, I applied these ideas to the Anacostia neighborhood of DC (" Enclave development won't "save" Anacostia ," 2006) and Prince George's County (" Can enclave development "save" Prince George's County? ," 2012).

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 4, 2024

The National Parks article discusses presentation of potentially controversial contemporary art in parks (also see " Home Land Security" art certain to spark dialogue in uncertain times ," Golden Gate Conservancy). From the article: “Home Land Security” opened a few months after the Brexit vote and ran through the U.S.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 5, 2024

The National Parks article discusses presentation of potentially controversial contemporary art in parks (also see " Home Land Security" art certain to spark dialogue in uncertain times ," Golden Gate Conservancy). From the article: “Home Land Security” opened a few months after the Brexit vote and ran through the U.S.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MAY 29, 2025

11] The United States developed through the early 2000s a sub-prime mortgage bubble that turned into a broader mortgage bubble, which in turn collapsed starting in 2006-2007. The net G-fee, i.e., the revenue that actually goes to F&F, averages only about 0.55

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