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A History of Ohio Land Banking 2009–2021: From Legislation to Operation

Center for Community Progress

At the height of the foreclosure crisis post-2008, a group of elected officials, community development practitioners, and lawyers came together to craft a strategy to respond to the hemorrhaging real estate market in Ohio. This number rose to 8,700 in 2003, 9,700 in 2004, 13,943 in 2006, and 14,946 in 2007.

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Community building versus economic development

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

A problem on Market East and in Philadelphia, they said, is the city government only contemplates the future in response to developers’ wishes. Plus they have a bias against development to begin with, think developers are monsters because they make profits, etc. Most economic development planners don't know the difference.

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Learning what not to do from the New England Patriots football team

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Basically, I'm interested in continuous process improvement and iterative learning (" Incrementalism as a concept of iterative improvement in government project development no longer a legitimate public administration theory ," 2023) applied to government and social program improvement.

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Regional and multi-state inter city bus transportation. Thanksgiving is a time of big travel.

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Note in my typology on the transit network at multiple scales (" Reprint (with editing): The Meta-Regional Transit Network ," 2009), a commenter had to point out to me that I failed to include buses. This was in the Thanksgiving entry, but should be separated out. = What to do about bus rider customer experience.

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A follow up on the H Street article: Learning from Philadelphia | More sophisticated daypart, retail, cultural, and experience planning

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

It might be that more neighborhood embedded districts, like Eastern Market (" Eastern Market DC's 150th anniversary last weekend | And my never realized master plan for the market ") or H Street have a better shot at developing the retail offer. Retail store development. But it has to be very focused.

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Covid-19: Elements of a Scenario

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

About the same time, 2007, Dr Michael Leavitt of the US Department of Health and Human Services wrote: "We don't know when a pandemic will arrive. It is also important to remember that the Covid-19 pandemic occurs in the context of other developments. McCaw 2007. PLoS One 2007:2(11): e1220, 1-6. Mathews et al.

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The Impact of GDP shocks on Fertility Rates

The Lowe Down

In China, there was a 15% decline in Registered Newborn Babies in 2020, and because of this trend, “the country’s population is aging more quickly than most of the world’s developed economies, a hangover from decades of family planning policies” (Bloomberg). Overall, 22% of the selected shocks are from 2009. births per 1,000 women.

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