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How to Address Homelessness: Reflections from Research

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

Coordination challenges between agencies (e.g., To aid in this process, researchers should equip policymakers with evidence of the benefits of affordable housing and, just as importantly, the lack of evidence that shelters reduce surrounding property values ( Furman Center, 2008 ).

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

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Often places have "lots of" parking, but it's spread out across multiple properties, and they don't coordinate. Coordinating Parking/Developing a shared parking scenario One of the big problems with capitalism is every property does its own thing. Promoting biking, walking, and other sustainable modes is another element of TDM.

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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

A big thing was parking and mobility coordination, for example the way Hyattsville does it for their Arts District. -- offer a joint delivery service from the market at least within the neighborhood as a basic transportation demand management measure. We did this in 2008 or 2009. I mentioned it over time.

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Social Media for Social Good: What role does social media play in creation of and sustainability of social movements? A Social Movement Case Study Examining Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party.

Public Policy Blog

Prolific proponent of the networked society Manuel Castells (2011) describes mass media being displaced by mass self-communication (Deluca, Lawson, & Sun, 2012) in altering the communication model from one-to-one to many-to-many. 2013; Bennett, Breunig, & Givens, 2008). Social Media in the United States.