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I wonder if Mayor Fenty hadn't dissolved the Anacostia Waterfront Initiative in 2007, merging it into another city agency, if development would have happened faster?

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

From the article: Administration officials see the influx of workers as an economic boost and part of a broader effort to scale up critical health infrastructure in a place where life expectancy and health outcomes lag behind neighborhoods to the west.

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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

This is in response to this Washington Post article, " Purple Line study: Without help, light-rail line will bring gentrification." Poster board from the 2014 meetings. Communities most at risk include Long Branch, Langley Park and Riverdale Park, study leaders said.

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Public restrooms: single versus multiple-occupant

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Many places have installed them, as they are often specified as part of street furniture/advertising projects (" City Room City Room Blogging From the Five Boroughs In 9 Years of Work, Just 3 Public Toilets Go Live ," New York Times , 2014, " JCDecaux wins San Francisco's iconic Street Furniture contract ").

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Metrorail Silver Line phase two opening this week

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

First, Virginia's focus on privatization, which is why the Silver Line was not built by Metro (" Silver Line delays: maybe the real lesson is that contracting out construction to the private sector doesn't always work so well ," 2014). You don't complain about system problems when it opens, but before. Proposed Gatineau-Ottawa transit loop.

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Community building versus economic development

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The article " Philadelphia’s Market Street East searches for growth and renewal — with or without a new Sixers arena ," has an interesting section on a community meeting where people who weren't into the arena concept suggested alternatives. and Baltimore metropolitan areas ," Transport Policy , 2014.

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Government Mortgage Interest Rates: A Serious Discussion about the Intertwined Topics of Risk Adjustment and Cross-subsidies

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

It is important to clearly state that the analysis in this article is based on the economic reality that if a loan does not have an interest rate that is appropriately risk-adjusted for its creditworthiness, then by definition there will be cross-subsidies in operation, even if that is not overtly stated. This claim is simply untrue.