Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 21, 2024

The article " Philadelphia’s Market Street East searches for growth and renewal — with or without a new Sixers arena ," has an interesting section on a community meeting where people who weren't into the arena concept suggested alternatives. They don't want an arena, they want green roofs.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Pahlka served in President Obama’s administration as the deputy chief technology officer from 2013-14, where she worked on initiatives to modernize government technology and improve digital services. She served as executive director from its formation until 2020.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 18, 2024

The Tribune article asks the question of whether or not the streetcar is contributing to traffic reduction. The journal article " Making Cycling Irresistible ," inspired my own blog entry in 2008, " Ideas for Making Cycling Irresistible in DC." I'd say definitely not, the ridership is abysmal. They had a very sophisticated approach.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

From the article: The capital improvement program reflects the region’s commitment to maintaining and improving your community’s $100 billion transit asset. My point is you ask for money when you are wildly successful and everyone is looking to join the bandwagon, not when you are failing, in crisis, and you have few friends.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

In 2009, I was appointed to serve on the Community Advisory Committee, representing the Eastern Market Preservation and Development Corporation. 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.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MARCH 10, 2023

Through 2013, the fee moved up strongly as part of the FHFA’s push to raise the cost of GSE mortgages in an attempt to “crowd in” more private market capital into mortgage lending. 5] This was the policy of the FHFA when it was under the control of Acting Director Edward Demarco (2009 to very early 2014).

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 11, 2024

My entry on arts districts and arts as consumption versus arts as production is about this kind of approach (" Reprinting with a slight update, "Arts, culture districts and revitalization" ," originally 2009, revised 2019). Again, I think this is community building. Pittsburgh. Large institutional arts districts.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 1, 2024

Also see " A National Mall-focused heritage (replica) streetcar service to serve visitors is a way bigger idea than a parking garage under the Mall ," 2013. That will add to the activation-specialness-fun element of the concept of the Bridge Park. s Black arts scene ," Post ).

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JUNE 19, 2023

From the article: Meanwhile, a few hundred feet away, Pioneer Square mainstays Linda Hodges Gallery and the Center on Contemporary Art are celebrating a different milestone: their last First Thursday Art Walk. Hotel Development ," Bisnow), and retail spaces that are getting crushed.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Crime Given urban crime problems in general and specifically in DC--I remember the worst of the murders in the 1990s, the crack epidemic (" Rayful Edmond's death reminds me of my introduction to Washington, DC ") etc., it's no wonder I have written a lot about crime.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 9, 2025

Overall, from 2013 to 2023, the share of 20-somethings in San Francisco County dropped from about 18% of the population to about 14% the largest such decline of any major U.S. Young people supply culture and creativity, which are the beating hearts of a city, said Assembly Member Matt Haney, who represents eastern San Francisco.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

For all of us seeking to create freeway decks, the Dallas Morning News has an article about Klyde Warren, " How Klyde Warren Park brought Dallas together." Construction began in late 2009. The year after the park opened, in 2013, the total value of real estate within the district's boundaries was $2.5

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

I have more than 1,000 entries on this topic. By focusing on key concepts that "I've developed" here's a list. Railroad passenger services and the Purple Line are separated out. I see they're updating their plan.) Bus service : bus service is the stepchild in transit systems with a foundation in rail transit.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 14, 2025

Trying not to think about the coming presidency of Donald Trump, but this Washington Post article, " D.C. The first Inauguration in 2009 was probably the absolute peak of success for WMATA, with more than one million subway riders that day--and it was about 6 months before the terrible crash at Fort Totten which killed nine people.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Screenshot, Downtown Pittsburgh Partnership marketing campaign, 2009. But these kinds of efforts are often criticized as inequitable ( Marketing Schools, Marketing Cities: Who Wins and Who Loses When Schools Become Urban Amenities , Maia Bloomfield Cucchiara, 2013).

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

There are tons of "leadership books" and seminars and articles about leadership lessons from sports team coaches. The Stanford Social Innovation Review has published articles over the years about application of design thinking to social enterprises and social issues. But to dig deeper for the right lesson. Learning from sports teams.

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Public Policy Blog

JANUARY 3, 2014

It doesn’t take long before thousands of Facebook users join these pages (Fieser, 2009). Occupy folks used blogging as a means to tell in-depth stories from the field, photos to document and illustrate the stories, and podcasting to make the voice of the protesters heard and to amplify the message (Tocchi, 2013).

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Sometime ago, I came across some journal articles about boycotts against streetcar segregation around the turn of the century in the South, including Richmond (" Right to Ride: Streetcar Boycotts and African-American Citizenship in the Age of Plessy v. But when a concerted organizing campaign was developed, she was chosen to be the face.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

This article describes ten issues to watch closely, as they are where Trump II will, in my view, likely show its hand in the range and depth of changes in mortgage programs and policies it intends to make. 8] ) Such crowding in was a stated objective of the conservatorship during the years when Ed DeMarco was acting director (2009 to 2013).

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