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

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

While this criticism can be extended to most services delivered by bureaucratic organizations, it's definitely the case that students in public schools are "customers" too, and thinking about and addressing their comfort likely will have a positive impact on educational outcomes. Flickr photo by Chiara Coetzee.

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Eastern Market DC's 150th anniversary last weekend | And my never realized master plan for the market

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

This was proposed a number of years ago for EM, first in the Barry Administration and then around 2012-2013, but the vendors fought it, with the support of now Mayor Muriel Bowser. We did this in 2008 or 2009. I was involved in helping "to save" that area c. Allow the sales of alcohol. Right now places can't sell it.

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Milwaukee’s three-pronged strategy to reduce teen pregnancy: An interview with Bevan Baker, Commissioner of Health, City of Milwaukee, and Nicole Angresano, United Way of Greater Milwaukee – Episode #118

Andy Feldman's Gov Innovator podcast

Milwaukee’s Teen Pregnancy Prevention Initiative, launched in 2008, is a citywide effort led by the United Way of Greater Milwaukee and Waukesha County. The use of evidence-based sex education. The initiative set a goal in 2008 to reduce Milwaukee’s teen births by 46% over 10 years.

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