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Purple Line Corridor Coalition study: Same Old, Same Old | Gentrification will result from investment in transit infrastructure

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The study came from the public-private Purple Line Corridor Coalition, a group composed of government officials, community activists, nonprofits, companies and academics. Poster board from the 2014 meetings.

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Will the GSEs Repeat 2007 - 2009’s Large Losses?

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

Second, it was very much exacerbated by strong government fiscal and monetary policy actions, especially the record low mortgage interest rates that also generated a massive refinancing boom. This resulted in the government taking them over in September 2008 and injecting $187B of taxpayer money to keep them solvent.

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Leaks And Leadership: What The Era of WikiLeaks Portends For Traditional Theories Of Leader Information Sharing Practices

Public Policy Blog

In turn, this creates a potential motive for centralizing information in the hands of a single leader” (Komai et al, 2007, p. On June 6, 2013 stories about a secret US government surveillance program that started in 2007 code-named “Prism” appeared 20 minutes apart on the websites of the Washington Post and the UK newspaper the Guardian.

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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. There is no public funding to commit to another project.” People at the forum said the discussion needed to move off an arena-or-nothing dynamic.

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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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Swarming and Followership; Distance Leading

Public Policy Blog

Image: Faggard, 2013. Technology renders some separations of time and space less meaningful, as we analyze the details of fallen dictatorships and changing governments from locations across the globe. 2007) In Athena’s Camp: Preparing for Conflict in the Information Age, Santa Monica: RAND. Arquilla, John and Ronfeldt, David.

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28 September 2017 | Rebuilding after the storms: The constitutional foundation, By Robert K. Christensen*

PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

The recent natural disasters centered in Texas, Florida and Puerto Rico have prompted many to look at government with fresh eyes. Earlier calls to “drain the swamp” seemed distant if not incongruous to presidential tweets that waxed confident, proud and even deferential to government and government officials.

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