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What should the program for a Transportation Management District look like?

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Transportation Demand Management programming The reality is, especially in a place like Salt Lake, most people drive. Often places have "lots of" parking, but it's spread out across multiple properties, and they don't coordinate. In serious TDM programs there are people ready to help individual clients make the shift.

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The GSE Conservatorships: Fifteen Years Old, With No End in Sight

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

Under the pressure of the financial crisis, in mid-2008, the market began to lose confidence in the implied guarantee given its informal and unwritten nature. However, it never made it past Senate Banking Committee approval in 2014. government (i.e.,

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Walmart to close one of its three DC stores

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

During the period of the (post) 2008 recession, Walmart, recognizing that it achieved about as much growth as it could in the suburbs and exurbs, decided to focus on cities. And it had one of the best transportation demand management signs I've ever seen in a retail store.

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Current GSE Guarantee Fees Are Too Low to Be Consistent with Regulatory Capital: Does This Mean a Large Increase Is Coming?

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

percent) in 2014, after having been purposefully increased by the FHFA and the two GSEs in prior years. percent range since 2014, rather than being materially lower or higher, does not seem to be well understood in the industry or among policy specialists. percent to 0.49 percent to 0.49

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Haiti: has there been progress in disaster reduction since the last big earthquake?

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

For example, in the 2008 hurricane season, four named storms arrived. Researchers have identified four goals [vii] : secure land occupation, sufficient and resilient livelihoods, robust and resilient ecosystems, and adequate disaster risk and emergency management. ii] Farmer, Paul 2012. Disasters 34(S3): S444-S463. [ii]

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What is the competitive advantage for the post-covid city? Doubling down on place values

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Districts are adept at outbound communications but have struggled to manage inbound messages as communications channels expanded beyond phone calls and mail to include texts and emails that can be sent around the clock, the report said. I'm not into it, but it's a kind of extension of that idea, but for space and place.

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