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More systematic equity and revitalization planning as an imperative and opportunity in the suburbs: Northern Virginia

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Part 2: Implementation Approach and Levers ," 2021 -- " Revisiting St. Which infuses two articles outlining a revitalization strategy for St, Louis, and a brief follow up: -- St. Louis: what would I recommend for a comprehensive revitalization program? Louis: what would I recommend for a comprehensive revitalization program?

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State of the Nation - a UK Perspective on Covid-19

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

Since 2008, pandemics have been top of the list of 96 threats and hazards in the UK National Risk Register of Civil Emergencies in all editions. Plans were made in the UK in 2006, 2008, 2011 and 2014. The exercises revealed, for example, that special attention needed to be given to protecting the residents of care homes (PHE 2017, pp.

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Need for social marketing initiatives around installation of neighborhood traffic calming initiatives: Salt Lake City

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Gosh, years ago I wrote about an approach to planning I called "action planning," focused on implementation, and to be successful included elements of social marketing and branding and identity. and often people don't understand when treatments are implemented, often with little community involvement.

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Rampant management failure #2: DC area Metrorail (Washington Area Metropolitan Transit Authority)

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

RTS did this when they were successful, so that when the 2008 recession hit, they were well placed to operate and survive financial setbacks that crippled other transit authorities who were not as well situated. The director then, Mark R. But it is also a management failure of local government.

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

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Is there a way for such commercial and neighborhood revitalization and management programs to be developed and implemented at a scale that doesn't reach that of the groups that typify downtowns and large parks? A signature initiative was the creation of the Neighborhood Revitalization Program, which was funded by a TIF bond.

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Updating the best practice elements of revitalization to include elements 7 and 8 | Transformational Projects Action Planning at a large scale

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

A commitment to the development and production of a broad, comprehensive, visionary, and detailed revitalization plan/s (Bilbao, Hamburg, Liverpool); the creation of innovative and successful implementation organizations , with representatives from the public sector and private firms, to carry out the program.

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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

We did this in 2008 or 2009. But they weren't particularly well structured or systematic in processes for recommending and implementing improvements. See item #10 in " Creating a Silver Spring "Sustainable Mobility District" | Part 3: Program items 10-18 " (2017), for the concept. I was involved in helping "to save" that area c.