Community and Economic Development Program of UNC
DECEMBER 9, 2022
Housing prices have increased far faster than incomes (Miller 2015), making affordable homeownership inaccessible for many aspiring homeowners (Hackett et al. Inclusionary zoning or LIHTC units only provide below-market housing for a fixed period (Miller 2015), and Housing Choice Vouchers become more costly as rents rise.
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
JULY 4, 2023
Second, during the 2008 crash, I got an email from an activist in response to all the budget and service cuts faced by transit systems. Now a goodly amount of that is encapsulated in " Branding's (NOT) all you need for transit " (2018), but old pieces like " Making Transit Sexy " (2005), make the point too, less sophisticatedly.
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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
NOVEMBER 22, 2023
From " Design Thinking ," American Libraries, 2008 I used action planning concepts when I did a pedestrian and bicycle plan for Baltimore County (" Best practice bicycle planning for suburban settings using the "action planning" method ," 2010).
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
APRIL 18, 2024
The journal article " Making Cycling Irresistible ," inspired my own blog entry in 2008, " Ideas for Making Cycling Irresistible in DC." And they had "parking innovation districts" for awhile, but they were idiosyncratic, not systematic, and had many restrictions. There aren't many free air pumps or bike stands.
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
AUGUST 25, 2022
On an e-list there's been a discussion of suburban TOD and someone mentioned this journal article, " Seven American TODs: Good practices for urban design in Transit-Oriented Development projects ," Journal of Transport and Land Use , 2008.)
The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)
MARCH 10, 2023
In the years immediately following conservatorship (which began in September 2008), the FHFA increasingly took over setting the average G-fee. The FHFA then indicated that it ended this delay and began to employ the newer, higher capital requirement approach beginning in 2022.
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
MARCH 3, 2024
One of my earliest pieces " Town-City branding or "We are all destination managers now" " (2005) was later expanded into the concept of a city's elected officials and stakeholders are its brand managers in commercial district revitalization framework plans I wrote in 2008 for Cambridge, Maryland, and Brunswick, Georgia.
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