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From LAX to ONT: The Transfer of Ontario International Airport and its Economic Implications

The Lowe Down

In November 2016, ownership of ONT was returned to the Inland Empire from LA County. In retort, Los Angeles stated that the significant loss in business resulted from the 2008 recession rather than administrative negligence. To conclude, Ontario Airport has delivered sustained success since the return of control to the Inland Empire.

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

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

At the time, my focus was trying to create a shared parking scenario, and to invest in sustainable mobility. Promoting biking, walking, and other sustainable modes is another element of TDM. The journal article " Making Cycling Irresistible ," inspired my own blog entry in 2008, " Ideas for Making Cycling Irresistible in DC."

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

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

the market expectation that the government would not let the companies fail) [2] rather than their own capital strength to sustain the near-government quality market access needed for their business model to work. This included: Developing an updated capital requirement broadly consistent with post-2008 bank regulatory requirements. [9]

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Chevron Deference Does Not Always Result in Support for the Government's Position

NLRG (National Legal Research Group)

2016) ("[W]e find that the BIA's articulation of the 'particularity' and 'social distinction' requirements in Matter of W-G-R- is reasonable and entitled to Chevron deference."), and the Eleventh Circuit, Gonzalez v. 2016) ("Because the BIA decision relied on Matter of E-A-G- [24 I. Lynch , 842 F.3d 3d 1125, 1137 (9th Cir. 591 (B.I.A.

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Gaps in Parks Master Planning, Part Six | Art(s) in the Park(s) as a comprehensive program

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Music in the American Wild ( webpage , Eastman School of Music) was a program where new music compositions were commissioned to play in 12 National Parks, in honor of the 100th anniversary of the park system in 2016. Nina Berman , Homeland Security Advisory Billboard, Country Club Hills, IL, 2008, from the Homeland series.

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University of Utah University Neighborhood Partners program and community revitalization in West side Salt Lake City/County

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

After the 2008 recession, they dropped their primary outreach program. This has been the case partly because many universities, like Yale in New Haven, Penn in Philadelphia, University of Chicago on the South Side, etc. are (or were) in economically languishing communities. But that's not categorical.

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Missing obvious opportunities to strengthen rail-based transit systems: Philadelphia Navy Yard and improvements to the transit "network"/platform

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Union Station railyard with MARC commuter train in the foreground. And as one of the early citizen directors of BART, the Bay Area Rapid Transit system, used to say about planning for transit expansion--don't put it off, because construction costs only go up.

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